Dear rock garden enthusiasts,
i´m new here in your excellent forum, but reading some time. I´m gardening in the surrounding of Berlin/Germany in a quite dry climate, not optimized for gems of high alpine origin. A lot of other gems do it, anyway. One of them is a little Brassiceae, bought as
Barbarea rupicola "Sunnyola", a seed raised cultivar, originating from Corsica and Sardinia.
My plants give the same picture as a
photo by alpinelover.
But there are other pictures, in the forum and in many places of the web, showing this plant, for my impression, under the name
Raffenaldia primuloides,
for example:
wrong determination? or
wrong determination 2nd?.
Reading an old, but extensive description of the genus (
Compendium florae atlanticae / 1883, p. 222/223, under the older synonym
Cossonia), one would expect no branched stem and no raceme but flower stalks (pedicels) emerging directly from leaf axils.
In fact, this is to see here of
Raffenaldia platycarpa pictured by Mick McLoughlin. Impressions of
Raffenaldia primuloides are given by scanned herbarium specimen of the Paris Herbarium:
P05353933,
P05353930.
Can you help to end my confusion? Thanks
