Brassicaceae
Creeping yellowcress
Rorippa sylvestris
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Rorippa
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Common names
By language (25)
- arz
- روريبا سيلفستريس
- Belarusian
- Жарушнік лясны
- Bulgarian
- Горски пореч
- Chinese
- 欧亚蔊菜, 歐亞葶藶, 辽东蔊菜
- Czech
- Rukev obecná
- Danish
- Vej-Guldkarse
- Dutch
- Akkerkers
- English
- Creeping yellowcress, Creeping yellow cress, Creeping yellow field cress, Creeping yellow-cress, Yellow field cress
- Estonian
- Metskerss
- Finnish
- Rikkanenätti
- French
- Rorippe des champs
- German
- Wilde Sumpfkresse
- Japanese
- キレハイヌガラシ
- Lithuanian
- Miškinis čeriukas
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Veikarse
- Persian
- ترتیزک زرد جنگلی
- Polish
- Rzepicha leśna
- Romanian
- Boghiță
- Russian
- Жерушник лесной, Жеруха лесная
- Slovak
- Roripa lesná
- Slovenian
- Divja potočarka, Gozdna potočarka
- Spanish
- Creeping Yellowcress, Keek, Yellow Fieldcress
- Swedish
- Strandfräne
- Ukrainian
- Водяний хрін лісовий
- Welsh
- Berwr melyn ymlusgol
Synonyms
- Brachiolobos brevistylus Schur
- Brachiolobos sylvestris All.
- Cardamine silvestris Kuntze
- Cardamine sylvestris Bubani
- Crucifera sylvestris (L.) E.H.L.Krause
- Nasturtium aschersonianum Janka
- Nasturtium astyloides Knaf. ex Opiz
- Nasturtium brevistylon Schur
- Nasturtium erythrospermum Boiss. & A.Huet
- Nasturtium hyi Foucaud & Rouy
- Nasturtium mucronulatum Lacroix
- Nasturtium reichenbachii Knaf ex Opiz
- Nasturtium sylvestre (L.) W.T.Aiton
- Nasturtium sylvestre A.Rich.
- Radicula pinnata Moench
- Radicula sylvestris Druce
- Rorippa liaotungensis X.D.Cui & Y.L.Chang
- Rorippa morisonii (Tausch) Beck
- Rorippa reichenbachii (Knaf ex Opiz) Simonk.
- Rorippa sylvestris var. stenocarpa (Godr.) Vict.
- Sisymbrianthus sylvestris Chevall.
- Sisymbrium sylvestre L.
- Sisymbrium vulgare Pers.
- Sisymrella sylvestris Spach
Flowers
- Flower colour
- yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: introduced, Canada: introduced, Greenland: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.