Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Barbarea grayi
Common name
Native Wintercress
Family
Brassicaceae
Where found
Damp areas near high-altitude streams. Kosciuszko National Park, and the Brindabella Range ACT.
Notes
Annual or biennial herb to 0.90 m high, hairless. Basal leaves oval, sometimes lobed, with long stalks. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, the lower leaves dissected, with up to 6 pairs of lobes, upper stem leaves simple and more or less toothed or dissected with one pair of lateral lobes, the terminal lobe much larger. Flowers with 4 petals each 5–6.6 mm long. Flowers in clusters. Flowers summer. Seed cases 2–6 cm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, its stalk erect to spreading, 3–7 mm long, to 1 mm wide. Seeds with a narrow warty wing.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Barbarea~grayi (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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