General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Biennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 10b
Plant Height: up to 2 feet
Fruit: Edible to birds
Flowers: Showy
Blooms on old wood
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Underground structures: Taproot
Suitable Locations: Bog gardening
Uses: Medicinal Herb
Vegetable
Salad greens
Will Naturalize
Suitable as Annual
Suitable for forage
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Self
Beetles
Flies
Bees
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

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Common names
  • Common Wintercress
  • Yellow Rocket
  • Creasy
  • Creecy
  • Creesy
  • St. Barbara's Herb
  • Wintercress
  • Garden Yellowrocket

Photo Gallery
Location: Roadside, Willow Street, Pennsylvania
Date: 2022-05-08
Location: Roadside, Willow Street, Pennsylvania
Date: 2022-05-08
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Date: 2023-05-11
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Date: 2023-05-11
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2003-04-10
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 4/21/2010

Date: 2003-04-11
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/

Date: 2003-04-11
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/

Date: 2006-01-09
USDA photo

USDA photo
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-31
Barbarea vulgaris, 2015, Yellow Rocket or Winter Cress, bar-BARE-
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-31
Barbarea vulgaris, 2015, Yellow Rocket or Winter Cress, bar-BARE-
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-31
Barbarea vulgaris, 2015, Yellow Rocket or Winter Cress, bar-BARE-

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