Cardamine nuttallii |
Cardamine bellidifolia |
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Nuttall's toothwort, slender toothwort |
alpine bittercress |
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Habit | Plants perennial, glabrous or pubescent; rhizomes slender, tuberous, segmented, producing fragile segments, ovoid, oblong, or cylindrical, 2–5 mm in diameter, nodes fleshy. | Plants perennial, glabrous, somewhat cespitose; rhizomes absent, caudex branches slender. |
Stems | erect, 0.5–2(3) dm; simple, bases above ground much wider than attachment to rhizome. |
1–8(14) cm, subscapose. |
Basal leaves | simple, rosulate; (0.6)1.2–5(7) cm; blades ovate to oblong, rarely oblanceolate to obovate; (0.4)0.8–1.7(2.5) × (0.2)5–1(1.6) cm, bases cuneate to obtuse; margins entire or obtusely small-toothed. |
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Rhizomal leaves | simple or 3(5)-foliolate; (3)4–20(25) cm; blades or terminal leaflets reniform, suborbicular; ovate, or oblong; (0.9)1.3–4(5.2) × (0.8)1.2–5(7) cm, often with purple spots, bases cordate to obtuse; margins apiculate-dentate or 5–7-lobed. |
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Cauline leaves | 1–3, pinnately or palmately compound, 3(5)-foliolate, bases not auriculate; terminal leaflets ovate, oblong, or linear; (0.5)1–3.5(6) cm; lateral leaflets smaller; entire, dentate, or lobed. |
absent or 1(2); simple, bases not auriculate. |
Inflorescences | bracts 0, fruiting pedicels ascending to divaricate, 1–3.5 cm. |
bracts 0, fruiting pedicels ascending to erect, 3–6(8) mm. |
Flowers | sepals erect, oblong, 3.5–5 mm; lateral pair saccate; petals obovate, 10–15 × 4–7.5 mm, purple to pale pink, rarely white, not clawed; tips rounded; ovules 8–16 per ovary; styles 4–8 mm. |
sepals oblong, 2–3(4) mm; erect; lateral pair not saccate; petals white, oblanceolate, 4–5.5(7) × 1.3–2(2.5) mm, not clawed; tips rounded or emarginate; ovules 8–18 per ovary; styles 0.5–3 mm. |
Fruits | 25–56 × 2–2.3 mm, glabrous. |
(8)13–28(37) × 1.3–2 mm, glabrous. |
Seeds | oblong, 2–2.5 × 1.4–1.6 mm. |
oblong, 1.5–2 × 0.9–1.2 mm. |
2n | =16. |
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Cardamine nuttallii |
Cardamine bellidifolia |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Damp woods, shaded bottomlands and hillsides, mossy slopes, streamsides. Flowering Mar–Jul. 0–2000 m. Casc, Col, CR, ECas, Est, Sisk, WV. CA, WA; north to British Columbia. Native. |
Marshy grounds, cliffs, talus slopes, moist rock crevices, alpine brooks. Flowering Jun–Sep. 1600–3200 m. BW, Casc. CA, WA; northern and western North America, Greenland; Asia, Europe. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2 draft Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 464 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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Synonyms | Cardamine nuttallii var. covilleana, Cardamine nuttallii var. dissecta, Cardamine nuttallii var. gemmata, Cardamine nuttallii var. nuttallii, Cardamine pulcherrima, Cardamine pulcherrima var. pulcherrima, Cardamine pulcherrima var. tenella, Dentaria gemmata, Dentaria tenella, Dentaria tenella var. pulcherrima, Dentaria tenella var. quercetorum, Dentaria tenella var. tenella | Cardamine bellidifolia var. pachyphylla |
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