This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
(named from St. Barbara, and called the Herb of St. Barbara)
Family, Mustard. Color, yellow. Flowers, in terminal, long racemes, pods below, blossoms above. Pod, linear, round, or somewhat 4-sided. Leaves, the lower lyrate, having a large, terminal lobe; the upper deeply cut at base, rounded at apex. Smooth perennial.
Roadsides and wet ground East and West.
 
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