Cardamine nuttallii |
Cardamine breweri |
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beautiful bittercres, Nuttall's toothwort, slender toothwort |
Brewer's bittercress, round bittercress |
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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 |
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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 |
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