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beautiful bittercres, Nuttall's toothwort, slender toothwort

Brewer's bittercress, round bittercress

Habit Glabrous to sparsely pubescent perennial from short, slender, fleshy rhizomes, the stems erect, 1-2 dm. tall. Erect to spreading perennial, with slender rhizomes 2 mm. thick, but 4 mm. thick at the base of the stems; flowering stems simple to branched, 2-6 dm. tall, mostly glabrous.
Leaves

Basal leaves long-petiolate, the blades orbicular to cordate, usually simple and scalloped, if deeply lobed the lobes entire;

cauline leaves 1-3, grouped above mid-length on the stem, usually with 3-5 lanceolate, entire leaflets 1-4 cm. long.

: Leaves glabrous, the few basal ones usually simple, the blade 1-3 cm. long, cordate or ovate;

cauline leaves compound with 2-4 lanceolate to ovate lobes, the terminal one dentate-lobed.

Flowers

Inflorescence of bractless, few-flowered racemes; pedicles ascending to erect, 1-2 cm. long;

sepals 4, 3-5 mm. long, purplish, the outer pair saccate at the base;

petals 4, pink to reddish or purplish, 9-14 mm. long;

stamens 6;

style slender, 3-6 mm. long.

Flowers in racemes, the pedicles ascending, 5-20 mm. long;

sepals 4, 1.5-2.5 mm. long;

petals 4, white, obovate, 3-7 mm. long;

style 0.5-2 mm. long.

Fruits

Siliques linear, 1.5-5 cm. long and 1.5 mm. broad;

seeds in 1 series.

Siliques erect, 2-3 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad.

Cardamine nuttallii

Cardamine breweri

Flowering time March-May April-August
Habitat Seasonally moist soils of forest openings to forest understory, from low to moderate elevations. Stream margins, wet meadows, pond shores, and other riparian areas.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California.
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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
C. angulata, C. bellidifolia, C. breweri, C. cordifolia, C. corymbosa, C. flexuosa, C. hirsuta, C. occidentalis, C. occulta, C. oligosperma, C. pensylvanica, C. pratensis, C. umbellata
C. angulata, C. bellidifolia, C. cordifolia, C. corymbosa, C. flexuosa, C. hirsuta, C. nuttallii, C. occidentalis, C. occulta, C. oligosperma, C. pensylvanica, C. pratensis, C. umbellata
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