pennycress
thlaspi latin

Principal species found on the Gwydir mine sites are pennycress and forked spleenwort.

The field pennycress has a bitter taste; it is usually parboiled to remove the bitter taste.

Cadmium and zinc, using Alpine pennycress (Thlaspi caerulescens), a hyperaccumulator of these metals at levels that would be toxic to many plants.

As they marched, Mattimeo and his friends were able to gather fair quantities of cloudberry and pennycress, supplemented with hard pears and crab apples.

In our first organic wheat crop, cut by scythe and stooked in the traditional manner, there was more weed seed, predominantly Garlic Pennycress, than grain.

The airport bisects the only known population of the Kneeland Prairie pennycress (Thlaspi californicum), a federally listed endangered species of plant.

In the United States Thlaspi caerulescens, Alpine Pennycress, is found almost completely to the west of Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.

Several plants in the United States are used also as pepper substitutes, such as Lepidium campestre, Lepidium virginicum, shepherd's purse, horseradish,and field Pennycress.

There are rare Minuartia and Alpine Pennycress, endemic varieties of the Dactylorhiza maculata and Euphrasia, as well as more common species such as Sundew, Pinguicula, Milkwort and Rhodiola rosea.

The site is of special interest as it supports the nationally rare Cotswold Pennycress (Thlaspi perfoliatum), for unimproved limestone grassland and scrub and for its population of the nationally scarce Duke of Burgundy fritillary butterfly.

In addition to being just a wildflower, Alpine Pennycress has been cited in phytoremediation to have special phytoextractional properties and is known to absorb cadmium with very good results and in certain instances is said to have absorbed zinc as well.

The Thlaspi has been proven to be a hyperaccumulator of heavy metals such as zinc and cadmium and therefore may be used in phytoremediation initiatives.

In the United States Thlaspi caerulescens, Alpine Pennycress, is found almost completely to the west of Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.

Dioscorides listed horseradish under Thlaspi or Persicon; Cato discusses the plant in his treatises on agriculture, and a mural in Pompeii shows the plant.

Quite a few more clusters turn up in sufficiently obscure words, such as tl in tlaspo "Thlaspi" (a genus of herb), and Aztec deities such as Tlaloko "Tlaloc".

Another example of a plants phenotypic reaction and adaptation with its environment is how Thlaspi caerulescens can absorb the metals in the soil to use to its advantage in defending against harmful microbes and bacteria in its leaves.

The site is of special interest as it supports the nationally rare Cotswold Pennycress (Thlaspi perfoliatum), for unimproved limestone grassland and scrub and for its population of the nationally scarce Duke of Burgundy fritillary butterfly.