Braya thorild-wulffii, the Greenland northern rockcress, is a plant species native to Greenland, Nunavut the Canadian Northwest Territories, and from the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of eastern Russia.Flora of North America v 7 p 551Czerepanov, S. K. 1981. Sosudistye Rasteniia SSSR 509 pages. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otd-nie, Leningrad.Warwick, S. I., A. Francis & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2006. Brassicaceae: Species checklist and database on CD-Rom. Plant Systematics and Evolution 259: 249–258.Aiken, S.G., Dallwitz, M.J., Consaul, L.L., McJannet, C.L., Boles, R.L., Argus, G.W., Gillett, J.M., Scott, P.J., Elven, R., LeBlanc, M.C., Gillespie, L.J., Brysting, A.K., Solstad, H., and Harris, J.G. 2007. Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval. NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
Braya thorild-wulffii is an herb up to 10 cm tall, sometimes hairy, sometimes not. Leaves are spatula-shaped, up to 4 cm long. Flowers are white to purplish, up to 10 mm in diameter. Fruits spherical or egg-shaped, up to 10 mm in diameter.Harris, James G. 2006. Novon 16(3): 352, f. 5.Böcher, T. W. 1978. Greenlands Flora 326 pp.Scoggan, H. J. 1978. Dicotyledoneae (Saururaceae to Violaceae). 3: 547–1115. In Flora of Canada. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.Ostenfeld, Carl Emil Hansen. 1923. Meddelelser om Grønland 64: 176–179, f. 2(3–4), 3(3–4), pl. 3A(1–4), 3B(1–2).Petrovsky, V. V. 1975. Arkticheskaia Flora SSSR 7: 52Hultén, Oskar Eric Gunnar. 1971. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar, n.s. 13(1): 18.Boivin, B. 1967. Le Naturaliste Canadien 94(5): 646.
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