The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to BARBAREA

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Basal leaves with 4–10 pairs of lateral lobes; pedicel > 1 mm thick; fruit > 4 cm
B. verna
  1' Basal leaves generally with < 4 pairs of lateral lobes; pedicel < 1 mm thick; fruit generally < 3 cm
 
    2. Style in fruit stout, < 1 mm; petals pale yellow; upper cauline leaves pinnately lobed; native
B. orthoceras
    2' Style in fruit slender, 1.5–3 mm; petals bright yellow; upper cauline leaves entire to coarsely dentate; alien
B. vulgaris


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