Cardamine flexuosa |
Cardamine holmgrenii |
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wavy bittercress, woodland bittercress |
Holmgren's bittercress |
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Habit | Plants perennial, glabrous; rhizomes slender, 0.5–1 mm in diameter. | |
Stems | erect to ascending, 15–20 cm, bases above ground as wide as attachment to rhizomes. |
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Rhizomal leaves | absent. |
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Cauline leaves | 3 or 4, pinnately or palmately compound, 3- or 5-foliolate, bases not auriculate; terminal leaflets obovate to lanceolate or linear in uppermost leaves, 1.3–2.3 × 0.2–0.8 cm; lateral leaflets linear to linear-lanceolate, 0.9–1.5 × 0.1–0.3 cm; margins entire. |
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Inflorescences | bracts 0, fruiting pedicels ascending to suberect, 5–14 mm. |
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Flowers | sepals erect, oblong, 1.2–1.5 mm; lateral pair not saccate; petals oblanceolate, 2–2.5 × 0.8–1 mm, white; tips rounded, not clawed; ovules 16–24 per ovary; styles 0.5–0.7 mm. |
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Fruits | 10–20 × ~1 mm, glabrous. |
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Seeds | oblong, 1.2–1.5 × 0.8–1 mm, brown. |
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Cardamine flexuosa |
Cardamine holmgrenii |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Boggy slopes. Flowering Jul–Aug. 2000–2200 m. BW. Native. Endemic to Oregon. This species is known only from the type locality in the Blue Mountains of Baker County. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 465 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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