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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Barbarea verna
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
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Learn more about Early Winter-cress from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Barbarea verna
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Barbarea verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Barbarea verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-22-001:
Barbarea verna FAMILY Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Campe verna
COMMON NAME:
Early Winter-cress, Creasy
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bave_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm150407_156
April Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Basal leaves pinnatifid with a large terminal lobe, 4-10 pr of lateral lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm150407_157
April Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
The cauline leaves are similar to the basal leaves, but much reduced, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm150407_158
April Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm150407_160b
April Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Flowers are about 1/4" wide (vs. about 1/2" wide in Brassica), per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm0505g_02
May Transylvania County NC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm0505g_07
May Transylvania County NC
Roadside
Fruits erect to ascending, not appressed to rachis, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm0505g_08
May Transylvania County NC
Roadside
Fruiting pedicels divaricate to ascending, stout (almost as broad as fruit), per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm0505g_10
May Transylvania County NC
Roadside
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmbarbareaverna_pw375
May
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Barbarea verna
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Barbarea verna
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Barbarea verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Barbarea verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-22-001:
Barbarea verna
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Campe verna
194
Forb
Winter annual/Biennial/Rarely perennial
Habitat: Fields, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Eurasia
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont) (rare in SC Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Silique
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p367
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p527
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p144
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p239
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p094
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p085
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p110
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p056
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