| Thlaspi caerulescens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Thlaspi |
| Species: | T. caerulescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Thlaspi caerulescens |
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| Range of T. caerulescens within the United States | |
| Synonyms | |
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T. alpestre |
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Thlaspi caerulescens, Alpine Pennycress and also known as Alpine Pennygrass, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is found in the Western United States, Scandinavia, and Europe.
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Thlaspi caerulescens is a small perennial plant that has small basal rosettes of leaves that "grow one or several short, unbranched stems that have small, arrow-shaped leaves and end in dense racemes of tiny white flowers."[1]
In the United States Thlaspi caerulescens, Alpine Pennycress, is found almost completely to the west of Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. In Finland and Sweden, it is found in all but the most northern regions, and flowers in April. It is also found in the Alps, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees, eastern Norway, southern Germany, and northern England.[2]
In addition to being just a wildflower, Alpine Pennycress has been cited in phytoremediation to have special phytoextractional properties and is known to absorb cadmium with very good results and in certain instances is said to have absorbed zinc as well.[3]