Bitter Wintercress (Barbara vulgaris)
A tall growing plant with many, tiny yellow flowers with 4 bright yellow petals.
Last changed on 2024-12-16
Common Names
- Bitter Wintercress, Yellow Rocketcress 🇨🇦
- Barbarée Commune 🇫🇷
- Winterkresse 🇩🇪
- Barbarea vulgaris 🇲🇽
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Characteristics & Identification
How to Identify
The arrangement of many tiny flowers with 4 petals. Leaves are arranged along the main and branching stems as well as branching off from the root. Leaves are lobed.
Where and When to Spot
In spring in forest and prairies along forests.
Taxonomy
- Order: Brassicales
- Family: Brassicaceae
- Species: Barbara vulgaris
Morphology
Flowers
- Color: yellow
- Shape: stellate
- Inflorescence: raceme
Leaves
- Arrangement: alternate
- Petiole: sessile
- Shape: lobed
- Margin: serrate
- Venation: pinnate
Observations by Park and Season
| Location | Spring | Summer | Autumn | Winter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belvédère Outremont | x | - | - | - |
| Parc Île-de-la-Visitation | x | - | - | - |
"-" indicates no observation. It may not necessarily mean though that the species is absent from the park during that season.