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wintercresses
Barbarea
Barbarea (winter cress or yellow rocket) is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in southern Europe and southwest Asia. They are small herbaceous biennial or perennial plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals.
24 branches of this genus, most-observed first

bitter wintercress
speciesBarbarea vulgaris

American yellowrocket
speciesBarbarea orthoceras

land cress
speciesBarbarea verna

Small-flowered Winter-cress
speciesBarbarea stricta

Medium-flowered Winter-cress
speciesBarbarea intermedia

Barbarea bracteosa
speciesBarbarea bracteosa

Barbarea rupicola
speciesBarbarea rupicola

Barbarea taiwaniana
speciesBarbarea taiwaniana

native wintercress
speciesBarbarea australis

small yellowrocket
speciesBarbarea brachycarpa

Barbarea grayi
speciesBarbarea grayi

Barbarea sicula
speciesBarbarea sicula

Barbarea plantaginea
speciesBarbarea plantaginea

Barbarea trichopoda
speciesBarbarea trichopoda
Barbarea macrocarpa
speciesBarbarea macrocarpa
Barbarea platycarpa
speciesBarbarea platycarpa
Barbarea longirostris
speciesBarbarea longirostris

small-seeded wintercress
speciesBarbarea oligosperma
Bosnian wintercress
speciesBarbarea bosniaca
Barbarea lepuznica
speciesBarbarea lepuznica
Barbarea grandiflora
speciesBarbarea grandiflora
Barbarea lutea
speciesBarbarea lutea
Barbarea integrifolia
speciesBarbarea integrifolia
Barbarea auriculata
speciesBarbarea auriculata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.780

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.778

Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.721

Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.187
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52977.