Barbarea stricta

Barbarea stricta, the small-flowered winter-cress,[3] is a species of plant in the family Brassicaceae.

Small-flowered winter-cress
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Barbarea
Species:
B. stricta
Binomial name
Barbarea stricta
Andrz. ex Besser
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Barbarea barbarea var. stricta (Andrz.) MacMill.
  • Barbarea palustris Hegetschw.
  • Barbarea parviflora Fr.
  • Barbarea vulgaris var. stricta (Andrz. ex Besser) A.Gray
  • Barbarea vulgaris var. stricta (Andrz.) Regel
  • Campe stricta (Andrz.) W.Wight
  • Campe stricta var. taurica (DC.) House
  • Crucifera stricta E.H.L.Krause

Description

Barbarea stricta is a biennial or perennial herb up to 100 cm tall. Leaves are up to 7 cm long, pinnately lobed with 1–3 pairs of lobes. Flowers are yellow, up to 10 mm across. Fruits are cylindrical or sometimes square in cross section.[4][5]

Distribution

first described in 1822 from Podolia, what is now the western part of Ukraine.[6] It is native to Europe and Asia but widely naturalized in parts of North America. It has been reported from all 6 New England states plus Québec, Ontario, New York State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, China, Greenland, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, France, England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Italy, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Hungary, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. It grows on disturbed sites such as roadsides, ditches, cultivated fields, etc.[4][7][8][9][10][11][12]

References
  1. Tropicos
  2. The Plant List
  3. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  4. Flora of North America v 7 p 462
  5. Fernald, M. L. 1909. The North American species of Barbarea. Rhodora. 11: 134-141.
  6. Antoni Lukianowicz Andrzejowski in Besser, Wilibert Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von. 1822. Enumeratio plantarum hucusque in Volhynia, Podolia, Gub. Kiioviensi, Bessarbia Cis-Tyraica et circa Odessam collectarum, simul cum observationibus in primitias florae Galiciae Austriacae 72.
  7. Böcher, T. W., K. Holmen & K. Jacobsen. 1968. Flora of Greenland (ed. 2) 312 pp.
  8. Flora of China Editorial Committee. 1988-2013. Flora of China (Checklist & Addendum). In C. Y. Wu, P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong (eds.) Flora of China. Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing & St. Louis.
  9. Tolmatchev, A. I. 1975. Arkticheskaia Flora SSSR 7: 1–180.
  10. Nature Gate, Luontto Porti, Helsinki
  11. Tela Botanica, Le Réseau de la botanique francophone, Barbarea stricta
  12. Rich, TCG. 1987. The genus Barbarea R. Br. (Cruciferae) in Britain and Ireland. Watsonia 16:389-396.
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