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{{SPlantbox |familia=Brassicaceae |genus=Barbarea |common_name=Winter cress, Yellow rocket |features=edible |Temp Metric=°F |jumpin=If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks! |image=Illustration Barbaraea vulgaris0.jpg |image_width=180 |image_caption=Barbarea vulgaris }} '''''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. {{Inc| 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. }} ==Cultivation== {{edit-cult}}<!--- Type cultivation info below this line, then delete this entire line --> ===Propagation=== {{edit-prop}}<!--- Type propagation info below this line, then delete this entire line --> ===Pests and diseases=== {{edit-pests}}<!--- Type pest/disease info below this line, then delete this entire line --> ==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]]'' ==Gallery== {{photo-sources}}<!-- remove this line if there are already 3 or more photos in the gallery --> <gallery> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==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 --> ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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