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Bog Yellowcress - Rorippa palustris
Other Names:
Rorippa islandica
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
SNR
C-value:
4
Agency Status
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General Description
Taprooted annual to short-lived perennial. Stems usually erect, 10–100 cm. Leaves basal and cauline; the lower leaves 3–15 cm long, petiolate, auriculate-clasping, oblanceolate, pinnately lobed and dentate; upper leaves similar, smaller, less divided and toothed. Vestiture of sparse, simple hairs below or plants glabrous. Petals yellow, 1.5–3 mm long. Fruit an ovoid silicle, 2–5 × 2–3 mm, glabrous; style 0.3–1 mm long; pedicels spreading, 3–10 mm long, longer than the silicle (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Montana has varieties
palustris,
hispida (Desv.) Butters & Abbe, and
fernaldiana Butters & Abbe
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Native
Range Comments
Throughout most of North America (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 34
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Relative Density
Recency
(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)
Habitat
Wet, often disturbed soil of fields, roadsides and along streams, wetlands; plains, valleys, montane (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus rufocinctus (Thorp et al. 1983).
Stewardship Responsibility
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
View Online Publication- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
Thorp, R.W., D.S. Horning, and L.L. Dunning. 1983. Bumble bees and cuckoo bumble bees of California (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 23:1-79.
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Ament, R.J. 1995. Pioneer Plant Communities Five Years After the 1988 Yellowstone Fires. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 216 p.
- Eggers, M.J.S. 2005. Riparian vegetation of the Montana Yellowstone and cattle grazing impacts thereon. M.Sc. Thesis. Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. 125 p.
- Jorgensen, H.E. 1970. Ecological aspects of the life history of Agropyron smithii Rydb. in Central Montana, with related effects of selective herbicide treatments of rangeland. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 118 p.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
- Tschache, O.P. 1970. Effects of ecological changes induced by various sagebrush control techniques on small mammal populations. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 51 p.
- Wood, A.K. 1987. Ecology of a prairie mule deer population. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 205 p.
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