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wavy bittercress, woodland bittercress

Holmgren's bittercress

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.

Rhizomal leaves

absent.

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.

Inflorescences

bracts 0, fruiting pedicels ascending to suberect, 5–14 mm.

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.

Fruits

10–20 × ~1 mm, glabrous.

Seeds

oblong, 1.2–1.5 × 0.8–1 mm, brown.

Cardamine flexuosa

Cardamine holmgrenii

Distribution
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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.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 465
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Sibling taxa
C. angulata, C. bellidifolia, C. breweri, C. californica, C. cordifolia, C. hirsuta, C. holmgrenii, C. nuttallii, C. occidentalis, C. oligosperma, C. parviflora, C. pattersonii, C. penduliflora, C. pensylvanica
C. angulata, C. bellidifolia, C. breweri, C. californica, C. cordifolia, C. flexuosa, C. hirsuta, C. nuttallii, C. occidentalis, C. oligosperma, C. parviflora, C. pattersonii, C. penduliflora, C. pensylvanica
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