Cardamine clematitis |
Cardamine nymanii |
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small mountain bittercress |
cuckoo bitter-cress, lady smock, northern field bitter-cress |
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Habit | Perennials; glabrous throughout. | Perennials; (cespitose); glabrous. |
Rhizomes | cylindrical, slender, 1–3 mm diam. |
absent. |
Stems | erect, unbranched or rarely branched distally, (0.8–)1–2.5(–3.5) dm. |
erect, unbranched or, rarely, branched, 0.5–1.6(–3.5) dm. |
Basal leaves | (7 or) 9–21-foliolate, (thick, veins impressed); leaflets petiolulate or sessile; lateral lobes or leaflets similar to terminal; terminal lobe or leaflet blade orbicular, broadly ovate to lanceolate, base rounded to cuneate, margins usually entire. |
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Rhizomal leaves | simple or 3-foliolate, (1.5–)3–8 cm, leaflets petiolulate or subsessile; petiole (1–)2–6 cm; lateral leaflets subsessile, blade similar to terminal, much smaller; terminal leaflet petiolulate (to 1 cm), blade reniform to cordate, (0.5–)1–2 cm, base cordate, margins entire or 3-lobed. |
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Cauline leaves | 3–7, 3-foliolate (or distalmost simple), petiolate, leaflets petiolulate or sessile; petiole 0.7–3.5 cm, base auriculate (auricle 0.7–5 mm); lateral leaflets sessile or petiolulate (to 0.5 cm), blade oblong to ovate or oblong; terminal leaflet (petiolule 0.5–1 cm), blade broadly ovate to suborbicular or reniform, 1.5–4 cm × 15–35 mm, margins often 3 or 5-lobed (lobe apex minutely apiculate, glabrous on margin). |
2–4(–7), pinnatisect or pinnately compound, (7 or) 9–21-foliolate, (thick, veins impressed), petiolate, leaflets petiolulate or sessile; petiole base not auriculate; lobes or leaflets (of proximal leaves) (4–)7–10 each side of rachis, fewer distally, distal leaves with 4 or 5 lobes or leaflets each side of rachis; terminal leaflet petiolulate or sessile, blade (or lobe) narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, base cuneate, margins entire. |
Racemes | ebracteate. |
ebracteate. |
Flowers | sepals oblong, 2.5–3 × 1–1.5 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white, oblanceolate, 6–8 × 2–3 mm (not clawed, apex obtuse to subemarginate); filaments: median pairs 3.5–4 mm, lateral pair 2–2.5 mm; anthers ovate, ca. 0.7 mm. |
sepals oblong or ovate, 3.6–4.4 mm, lateral pair saccate basally, (green with hyaline margins); petals white-lilac, 9–12.3 × 4.8–6.8 mm, (clawed, apex rounded or emarginate); filaments: median pairs 3.5–4.5 mm, lateral pair 2–3 mm; anthers narrowly oblong, 0.9–1.4 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, (7–)10–17 mm. |
erect-ascending, 5–15 mm. |
Fruits | linear, (1.5–)2–3.5(–4) cm × 1.3–1.7 mm; ovules 10–16 per ovary; style 2–4 mm. |
linear, 1–1.8 cm × ca. 1.5 mm; ovules ca. 16 per ovary; style ca. 1 mm, (stout). |
Seeds | brown, oblong, 1.7–2 × 1–1.2 mm. |
brown, oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. |
2n | = 56, 60, 64, 80–100. |
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Cardamine clematitis |
Cardamine nymanii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Wet areas, springs, moist slopes | Wet meadows, marshes, margins of ponds, along streams, seacoasts, swamps |
Elevation | 1300-1800 m (4300-5900 ft) | |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; NC; TN; VA |
AK; MB; NL; NT; NU; QC; YT; Greenland; n Eurasia
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 470. | FNA vol. 7, p. 478. |
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Synonyms | C. pratensis var. angustifolia | |
Name authority | Shuttleworth ex A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 15: 45. (1880) | Gandoger: Bull. Soc. Bot. France 72: 1043. (1925) |
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