Rorippa curvipes |
Rorippa palustris |
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bluntleaf yellowcress, common yellowcress |
marsh yellowcress |
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Habit | Plants annual, rarely short-lived perennial, glabrous or hirsute. | |
Stems | erect; (0.5)1–10(14) dm; simple at base. |
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Basal leaves | rosulate; (4)6–20(30) × 1–5(8) cm, lyrate-pinnatisect. |
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Cauline leaves | (1.5)2.5–10(18) × (0.5)0.8–2.5(3) cm, bases auriculate or amplexicaul; margins entire, dentate, sinuate, or lyrate-pinnatifid, petiolate or subsessile. |
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Inflorescences | fruiting pedicels divaricate or reflexed; straight or curved; (2.5)3–10(14) mm. |
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Flowers | sepals erect, caducous, 1.5–2.4(2.6) mm; petals spatulate; (1.5)1.8–2.5(3) × 0.5–1.5 mm; ovules 20–90 per ovary; styles 0.2–1(1.2) mm. |
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Fruits | silicles or rarely siliques, oblong, ellipsoid, or ovoid; (3)4–10 × (1.5)1.7–3(3.5) mm, often slightly curved, glabrous; valves glabrous; septa complete. |
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Seeds | biseriate; ovoid or subglobose, 0.5–0.7(0.9) × 0.4–0.6(0.7) mm, brown to yellowish brown. |
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2n | =32. |
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Rorippa curvipes |
Rorippa palustris |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | 2 subspecies. Rorippa palustris is by far the most variable species in the genus. Stuckey (1972) divided the species into four subspecies and eleven varieties, but all except two were artificially delimited, and the characters used to separate them show tremendous overlap. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 506 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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Synonyms | Rorippa curvipes var. curvipes, Rorippa curvipes var. truncata | |
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