Barbarea stricta

Small-flowered Wintercress
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Barbarea
Species: B. stricta
Binomial name
Barbarea stricta
Andrz.
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

Barbarea stricta, Small-flowered Wintercress, is a plant species first described in 1822 from Podolia, what is now the western part of Ukraine.[3] 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][5][6][7][8][9][10]


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][11]

References

  1. Tropicos
  2. The Plant List
  3. 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.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Flora of North America v 7 p 462
  5. Böcher, T. W., K. Holmen & K. Jacobsen. 1968. Flora of Greenland (ed. 2) 312 pp.
  6. 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.
  7. Tolmatchev, A. I. 1975. Arkticheskaia Flora SSSR 7: 1–180.
  8. Nature Gate, Luontto Porti, Helsinki
  9. Tela Botanica, Le Réseau de la botanique francophone, Barbarea stricta
  10. Rich, TCG. 1987. The genus Barbarea R. Br. (Cruciferae) in Britain and Ireland. Watsonia 16:389-396.
  11. Fernald, M. L. 1909. The North American species of Barbarea. Rhodora. 11: 134-141.