Creeping Yellow Fieldcress

Creeping Yellow Fieldcress, Yellow Fieldcress

Rorippa sylvestris (L.) Bess.

Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)

▲ rosettes from creeping roots

▲ mature flowering plant

▲ ▼ flowers and fruit

▲ flowers

▲ creeping roots with emerging shoots

▲ large colony in flower

Creeping Yellowcress, Yellow Fieldcress:

creeping perennial very similar to spreading yellowcress except:
- leaves more deeply divided, with teeth on each lobe
- siliques more slender (not as elliptical) and not as curved
- individual stems more upright (not as sprawling as above), but grow about same height
- found more in eastern part of Midwest, while spreading yellowcress more in western half
both grow in Missouri; creeping yellowcress is becoming a common nursery weed