Barbarea brachycarpa

Ssp brachycarpa: Çatal nicarcık; Ssp minor: Nicarcık; Ssp robusta: Pek nicarcık

Usually small perennial herbs. Stems erect, usually glabrous, up to 30 cm, but often less than 10 cm. Basal leaves glabrous to pilose, long-petiolate, with 0-1 pairs of lateral leaflets, and a larger ovate-orbicular, usually toothed, terminal leaflet. Stem leaves oblong-amplexicaul, toothed, overlapping. Petals yellow, 6-8 mm. Siliquae erect-spreading, compressed, not more than 1 mm broad. 3 intergrading varieties are recognisable in Turkey:

1. Lower leaves densely to sparsely pubescent….ssp. brachycarpa

1. Lower leaves glabrous

    2. Plants delicate, up to 16 cm tall……..ssp. minor

    2. Plants robust, 22-30 cm tall………..ssp. robusta