Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Barbarea verna
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Early Winter-cress from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Barbarea verna
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 (5/21/15):
Barbarea verna
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Barbarea verna
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
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
Non-native: Eurasia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Silique
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p367
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p144
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p078
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p239
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p094
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p085
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p110
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p056