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Photographer: Hugh H. Iltis
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Family Brassicaceae
Rorippa sylvestris (L.) Besser
creeping yellow-cress
Rorippa: an Anglo-Saxon word rorippen whose meaning has been lost
sylvestris: growing in woods, forest-loving, wild
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 8"-24" tall forb, usually with upper branches, mostly smooth |
| Flower: | yellow, 4-parted, petals twice as long as the sepals; inflorescence a loose cluster (raceme) of stalked flowers; blooms May-Aug. |
| Fruit: | long, thin, nearly horizontal pods sometimes drooping |
| Leaf: | stem leaves with thin stalks, deeply pinnately-divided with the segments sharply toothed |
| Habitat: | wet |
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