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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Brassicaceae
Rorippa sessiliflora (Nutt.) Hitchc.
southern yellow-cress, stalkless yellow-cress
Rorippa: an Anglo-Saxon word rorippen whose meaning has been lost
sessiliflora: Latin meaning "with unstalked or sessile flowers"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | usually erect annual, 8"-16" tall forb, smooth, usually branched |
| Flower: | yellow, 4-parted, no petals, mature stalk less than 1/8" long; inflorescence a cluster (raceme) of stalked flowers; blooms May-Oct. |
| Fruit: | thick pods |
| Leaf: | stalked, lower leaves often pinnately-divided below the middle |
| Habitat: | wet; marshes, shallows |
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