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|familia=Brassicaceae
|genus=Barbarea
|common_name=Winter cress, Yellow rocket
|features=edible
|Temp Metric=°F
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|image=Illustration Barbaraea vulgaris0.jpg
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|image_caption=Barbarea vulgaris
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'''''Barbarea''''' (''[[Syllable stress of Botanical Latin|Bar-ba-ré-a]]'', '''Winter cress''' or '''Yellow rocket''') is a genus of about 22 species of [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Brassicaceae]], native to temperate regions of the [[Northern Hemisphere]], with the highest species diversity in southern [[Europe]] and southwest [[Asia]]. 

They are small herbaceous [[biennial plant|biennial]] or [[perennial plant]]s with dark green, deeply lobed [[leaf|leaves]] and yellow [[flower]]s with four petals.

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Barbarea (from the old name, Herb of Saint Barbara). Cruciferae. Hardy biennials, with yellow flowers, sometimes cultivated; allied to water-cress and horseradish.

Branching leafy herbs: fls. small, yellow, clustered: fr. a linear cylindrical and 4-angled pod, the valves keeled.
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
Selected species:
*''[[Barbarea balcana]]''
*''[[Barbarea bosniaca]]''
*''[[Barbarea bracteosa]]''
*''[[Barbarea conferta]]''
*''[[Barbarea hongii]]''
*''[[Barbarea intermedia]]''
*''[[Barbarea lepuznica]]''
*''[[Barbarea longirostris]]''
*''[[Barbarea orthoceras]]''
*''[[Barbarea rupicola]]''
*''[[Barbarea sicula]]''
*''[[Barbarea stricta]]''
*''[[Barbarea taiwaniana]]''
*''[[Barbarea verna]]''
*''[[Barbarea vulgaris]]''

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==References==
<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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