Alpine pennycress facts for kids

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Quick facts for kids Noccaea montana

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Noccaea
Species:	N. montana
Binomial name
*Noccaea montana* (L.) F. K. Mey.

Range of Noccaea montana within the United States
Synonyms
Noccaea fendleri subsp. glauca (A.Nelson) Al-Shehbaz & M.Koch Thlaspi montanum L.

Noccaea montana, the alpine pennycress, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is found in the Western United States. It has a basal rosette out of which grows "one or several short, unbranched stems that have small, arrow-shaped leaves and end in dense racemes of tiny white flowers."

Distribution and habitat

In the United States, Noccaea montana is found almost completely to the west of a line joining Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.

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