Barbarea arabica
Common Wintercress
Barbarea vulgaris
W.T.Aiton Species
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- Botanical name
- Barbarea vulgaris
- Also known as
- Bitter Wintercress, Bittercress, Common Winter-Cress, Common Wintercress, Cress, Cressy-Greens, Garden Yellow Rocket, Garden Yellowrocket, Herb Barbaras, Herb-Barbaras, Rocket Cress, Upland Cress, Winter Cress, Winter-Cress, Winter-Cress, Yellow Rocket, Wintercress, Yellow Rocket
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Barbarea
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Common Wintercress
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Barbarea vulgaris but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Arabis barbarea
Barbarea abortiva
Barbarea altaica
Barbarea arcuata
Barbarea arcuata f. brachycarpa
Barbarea arcuata f. pubescens
Barbarea arcuata var. pubescens
Barbarea augustana
Barbarea barbarea subsp. brachycarpa
Barbarea barbarea var. longisiliquosa
Barbarea iberica
Barbarea kayserii
Barbarea linnaei
Barbarea oligosperma
Barbarea rivularis
Barbarea rivularis
Barbarea rupestris
Barbarea sicula
Barbarea stricta
Barbarea vicina
Barbarea vulgaris f. hirsuta
Barbarea vulgaris f. plena
Barbarea vulgaris f. vulgaris
Barbarea vulgaris subsp. arcuata
Barbarea vulgaris var. arcuata
Barbarea vulgaris var. brachycarpa
Barbarea vulgaris var. gracilis
Barbarea vulgaris var. hirsuta
Barbarea vulgaris var. longisiliquosa
Barbarea vulgaris var. macrophylla
Barbarea vulgaris var. sylvestris
Barbarea vulgaris var. taurica
Barbarea vulgaris var. vulgaris
Campe barbarea
Campe barbarea var. hirsuta
Campe rivularis
Campe vulgaris
Crucifera barbaraea
Eruca barbarea
Erysimum arcuatum
Erysimum barbarea
Erysimum lucidum
Erysimum lyratum
Erysimum lyrifolium
Sisymbrium barbarea
Others in Barbarea
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