Question: Hello, I live in southeastern Wisconsin, and stumbled upon this website while trying to identify a plant I've seen growing …
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Hello, I live in southeastern Wisconsin, and stumbled upon this website while trying to identify a plant I've seen growing in my yard. I first saw it two years ago, but not last year. This year, I was able to avoid it with the lawn mower and took a couple pictures. I am thinking that it is Barbarea vulgaris, but I think I see pictures of more than one plant specie in the sample pictures, and wanted to ask before posting: are the pictures I have taken of Barbarea vulgaris, or something else?
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Dear holymackerel87, the plant you have photographed does appear to be a species of Barbarea (yellow rocket). I can't tell you for certain which species it is without seeing open flowers and close-up images of certain morphological features. That written, it is likely to be Barbarea vulgaris, as you noted. Best wishes.
