Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Perfoliate Pennycress - Noccaea perfoliata   (L.) Al-Shehbaz
Members of Brassicaceae:
Only member of Noccaea in NC.
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Author(L.) Al-Shehbaz
DistributionScattered in the Mountains and Piedmont.

Native of Eurasia and northern Africa; in N.A. NY to IL and KS, south to NC and TN; also WA.
AbundanceRare in the Mountains and Piedmont.
HabitatRoadsides, roadside in riparian zone (Alleghany Co.), railroad margins, fields, meadows.
PhenologyFlowering and fruiting March-June.
IdentificationThe leaves of Perfoliate Pennycress are not truly perfoliate; rather, they are sessile and clasp the stem with backward projections. In any event, this leaf condition plus the relatively heart-shaped pods will identify this plant. The flowers are white, in a rather dense, globular cluster at the top of the stem or a branch.
Taxonomic CommentsSynonyms include Thlaspi perfoliatum and Microthlaspi perfoliatum. See Weakley (2018) for the reasoning behind the name changes.

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