Vascular Plant Herbarium

Vascular Plant Database Genus Results

Category: Dicots
Family Name: Brassicaceae

Rorippa - [maps | photos]

• Rorippa aquatica (Eaton) Palmer & Steyerm. (TN Special Concern)
  NWI TN: Obligate Wetland
  Common Name: lake cress
  Synonyms:
  

         • Neobeckia aquatica (Eat.) Greene

         • Armoracia lacustris (A. Gray) Al-Shehbaz & V.M. Bates

         • Armoracia aquatica (Eat.) Wieg.

• Rorippa palustris (L.) Besser ssp. fernaldiana (Butters & Abbe) Jonsell
  NWI TN: Obligate Wetland
  Common Name: Fernald's yellow cress

• Rorippa sessiliflora (Nutt.) Hitchc.
  NWI TN: Facultative Wetland +
  Common Name: stalkless yellow cress

• Rorippa sinuata (Nutt.) Hitchc.
  Common Name: spreading yellow cress

• Rorippa sylvestris * (L.) Besser
  NWI TN: Obligate Wetland
  Common Name: creeping yellow cress

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*Non-native taxon known to be naturalized in Tennessee

All names & statuses follow the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee (2015).
Click here for a description of rare, threatened, or endangered (RTE) status & National Wetland Indicator (NWI) status.

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