Barbarea
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Barbarea (Bar-ba-ré-a, Winter cress or Yellow rocket) is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants 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 or perennial plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals.
Read about Barbarea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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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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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