Latin name: Barbarea orthoceras Ledeb.
  Pronunciation: bar-BARE-ee-a or-tho-SER-as

  Common name: Winter cress
  Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard)
  Habitat: Damp meadows, wet rocly places, moist
  woods, streambanks, montane coniferous forest
  to 10,000'
  Blooming period: March to September
  Click for Latin name derivations:  1) Barbarea
  2) orthoceras
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