Barbarea stricta
Tracheophyta
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Ecology
A biennial or perennial herb of moist places by rivers, ditches, canals and marshes, and a rare casual of waste places. Lowland.
Status
Neophyte
Trends
B. stricta was first recorded in Britain in 1843, although it may have previously been confused with B. vulgaris, and it is stable in its distribution.
World Distribution
A Eurosiberian Boreo-temperate species, absent as a native from much of W. Europe.
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Broad Habitats
Light (Ellenberg): 8
Moisture (Ellenberg): 7
Reaction (Ellenberg): 7
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 8
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.7
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 15.9
Annual Precipitation (mm): 705
Height (cm): 100
Perennation - primary
Biennial, including monocarpic perennials
Perennation - secondary
Perennial
Life Form - primary
Hemicryptophyte
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Little or no vegetative spread
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 104
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 1
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 0
Atlas Change Index: 0.5
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000002882
Atlas text references
Atlas (46a)
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1986. Atlas of north European vascular plants north of the Tropic of Cancer. 3 vols.
Jalas & Suominen (1994)
Rich (1987
1991)