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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Brassicaceae
Barbarea orthoceras Ledeb.
American yellow-rocket, northern winter-cress
Barbarea: named after St. Barbara and once generally known as her herb, or the Herba Sanctae Barbarae
orthoceras: from the Greek for "straight, upright" and "horn"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | biennial/perennial forb |
| Flower: | yellow, 4-parted, 1/4" wide, flower stalk bat-like; inflorescence a crowded cluster (raceme) of stalked flowers |
| Fruit: | long, thin pod roundish in cross-section; seeds in 1 row |
| Leaf: | toothed, clasping, lower mostly pinnately-divided with a large end lobe and 1-4 pairs of smaller side lobes |
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