''Barbarea australis'', commonly known as native wintercress or riverbed wintercress, is a morphologically and ecologically typical '' Barbarea'' species with an unusual distribution: it is an endemic and threatened species from

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Barbarea stricta ''Barbarea stricta'', the small-flowered winter-cress, is a species of plant in the family Brassicaceae. Description ''Barbarea stricta'' is a biennial or perennial herb up to 100 cm tall. Leaves are up to 7 cm long, pinnately lobed ...

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Barbarea orthoceras ''Barbarea orthoceras'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by the common name American yellowrocket. It is native to North America, including much of Canada and the western United States, as well as parts of Asia. It ...

''. With regard to defence chemicals ( glucosinolates), it is similar to other members of the genus.

Cultivation

Although the plant remains critically endangered in the wild, Native wintercress is available for home garden cultivation. All above-ground parts of the plant are edible, with the leaves tasting similar to

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.Native Wintercress - Tucker Bush edible Australian plants
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References

australis Flora of Tasmania Plants described in 1852 Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker Plants described in 1853 {{Brassicales-stub