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Photographer: Josh Sulman
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Family Brassicaceae
Rorippa austriaca (Crantz) Besser
Austrian fieldcress, Austrian yellow-cress, field yellow-cress
Rorippa: an Anglo-Saxon word rorippen whose meaning has been lost
austriaca: southern
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| Status: | Introduced - locally established |
| Plant: | perennial, to 24" tall forb; thick, fleshy, creeping roots |
| Flower: | yellow, 4-parted; inflorescence a clusters (raceme) of stalked flowers |
| Fruit: | roundish pods, shorter than the stalk |
| Leaf: | lance-like, mostly toothed but not divided, lobed at the base |
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