Rorippa sylvestris

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| image = Rorippa sylvestris eF.jpg

| genus = Rorippa

| species = sylvestris

| authority = (L.) Besser, 1822]

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Rorippa sylvestris (the creeping yellowcress,[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ROSY Rorippa sylvestris] at [http://plants.usda.gov/ USDA PLANTS Database] keek, or yellow fieldcress; syn. Radicula sylvestris (L.) Druce [http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu/factsheetfusion/Rorippa_sylvestris_(L.)_Besser.htm Rorippa sylvestris] at [http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu The Herbarium of Louisiana State University]) is an invasive species[http://www.invasive.org/browse/subject.cfm?sub=6330 Rorippa sylvestris] at [http://www.invasive.org Invasive.org] of plant in the United States, likely entering from Europe before 1818 from ballast water and spreading throughout North America through contaminated nursery seed stock.{{Citation |last=Les |first=Donald H. |title=Dicotyledons II |date=2017-09-01 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315118116-3 |work=Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America |pages=45–86 |place=Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, 2018. |publisher=CRC Press |doi=10.1201/9781315118116-3 |isbn=978-1-315-11811-6 |access-date=2022-06-16}}