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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Brassicaceae
Barbarea vulgaris R.Br.
garden yellow-rocket, winter-cress, yellow-rocket
Barbarea: named after St. Barbara and once generally known as her herb, or the Herba Sanctae Barbarae
vulgaris: Latin for "common"
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, biennial/perennial, 8"-32" tall forb, dark green, branched toward the top |
| Flower: | yellow, 4-parted, 1/2" wide; inflorescence a crowded cluster (raceme) of stalked flowers; blooms April-June |
| Fruit: | long, thin pod roundish in cross-section; seeds in 1 row;  |
| Leaf: | pinnately-lobed to deeply-toothed, clasping; lower leaves with a large, rounded end lobe and 1-4 pairs of smaller side lobes; stems leaves getting smaller toward the top and becoming merely oval |
| Habitat: | moist; fields, disturbed sites, gardens |
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