Cardamine parviflora |
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narrow-leaved bittercress, sand bittercress, small-flowered bittercress |
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Habit | Plants annual, slender, glabrous or pubescent. |
Stems | somewhat flexuous; (5)10–30(40) cm. |
Basal leaves | often withered by anthesis, not rosulate, pinnately (5)7–13(17)-foliolate; (2)4–10 cm; terminal leaflets linear, oblong, oblanceolate, obovate, or suborbicular; (1)3–10 × 1–7 mm; margins entire, or 3(5)-toothed or -lobed; lateral leaflets similar to terminal. |
Cauline leaves | pinnately or palmately compound; (5)9–15(17)-foliolate, bases not auriculate; lateral leaflets narrowly oblong, linear, or filiform, 1–3 mm wide; terminal leaflets filiform, linear, or narrowly oblong, 3–10(16) × 0.3–3 mm; margins entire or rarely 1–3-toothed. |
Inflorescences | bracts 0, fruiting pedicels divaricate or ascending, 4–10 mm. |
Flowers | sepals oblong, 1–1.5(2) mm; petals oblanceolate; (1.5)1.8–2.5(3) × 0.4–0.8(1) mm, white; stamens 6; anthers ovate, 0.2–0.4 mm; ovules 20–50 per ovary; styles 0.3–0.7(1) mm. |
Fruits | (5)10–20(25) × 0.6–0.9 mm, glabrous. |
Seeds | oblong-ovate, 0.6–0.9 × 0.4–0.6 mm, margined or not. |
2n | =16. |
Cardamine parviflora |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | Roadsides, riverbanks, rocky crests and outcrops, dry woods, fallow fields, marsh and swamp margins, floodplains, waste grounds, ledges and cliffs. Flowering Apr–Jun. 0–1300 m. BW, WV. WA; throughout southern Canada, central and eastern US. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 466 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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