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Brassicaceae family

Smooth Northern-rockcress Braya glabella

Native

Smooth Northern-rockcress is a perennial wildflower native to Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.

Growing & care

USDA PLANTS · TRY
Conditions
Sources · Conditions
Cold hardiness (derived) — Hardiness
Hardiness
≥ zone 6 derived from its U.S. range
Size & form
Sources · Size & form
USDA PLANTS — Lifespan
Lifespan
Perennial
In the garden
Herb layer — Sits in the herb of a layered food forest or polyculture.Open guide →
derived roles
Species characteristics from USDA PLANTS (public domain) + TRY (CC BY) — general guidance, not a guarantee for your exact site. Deer "browsing" is documented palatability, not a deer-proof claim.
Frequently grows with

Across 34 U.S. vegetation-survey plots that recorded Smooth Northern-rockcress, these catalog species turned up most often in the same plot — a real field co-occurrence signal, not a planting prescription.

Entireleaf Mountain-avens · 76% Purple Mountain Saxifrage · 65% Curly Sedge · 50% Blackish Oxytrope · 41% Narrow Alkaligrass · 35% Sweetflower Rockjasmine · 32% Grayleaf Draba · 32% Arctic Stitchwort · 32%
"%" = share of this plant's plots that also held the species. From sPlotOpen → (Sabatini et al. 2021, CC BY 4.0) — open vegetation plots: wild community composition, not garden design.
Sources for this entry (12) Open & cited
[01] Scientific name & family — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[02] Growth habit & duration — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[03] Native status & distribution — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[04] Common name — USDA PLANTS (via GBIF)
[05] Invasive / introduced status — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503) — native status
[06] Wetland indicator — USACE National Wetland Plant List (2022)
[08] Conservation rank — NatureServe Explorer (CC BY)
[09] Cold hardiness (derived) — Derived from U.S. range × USDA PHZM zones
[11] County range — GBIF Open Data — open-licensed occurrences (CC0/CC-BY) → county
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