Common name
American Wintercress
Informal group
Plants
Territories
Island
Tristan
Establishment status
Establishment status detail
Found at a site in the settlement, as well as at one site in the 1961 lava area [1].
First record
2007
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Habitat
18. Unknown
Pathway detail
At the latter site it may have arrived with garden waste from the settlement [1].
References
[1] Gremmen, N.J.M. and R.L. Halbertsma (2009). Alien plants and their impact on Tristan da Cunha. Report Data-Analyse Ecology, Diever, NL.; [2] Maczey, N., Tanner, R., Cheesman, O., & Shaw, R. (2012). Understanding and addressing the impact of invasive non-native species in the UK Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: A review of the potential for biocontrol. Unpublished report. CABI (ref: TR10086).