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narrow-leaved bittercress, sand bittercress, small-flowered bittercress

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

Distribution
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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
Sibling taxa
C. angulata, C. bellidifolia, C. breweri, C. californica, C. cordifolia, C. flexuosa, C. hirsuta, C. holmgrenii, C. nuttallii, C. occidentalis, C. oligosperma, C. pattersonii, C. penduliflora, C. pensylvanica
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