Cardamine nymanii |
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cuckoo bitter-cress, lady smock, northern field bitter-cress |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); glabrous. |
Rhizomes | absent. |
Stems | 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. |
Cauline leaves | 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. |
Flowers | 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 | erect-ascending, 5–15 mm. |
Fruits | linear, 1–1.8 cm × ca. 1.5 mm; ovules ca. 16 per ovary; style ca. 1 mm, (stout). |
Seeds | brown, oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. |
2n | = 56, 60, 64, 80–100. |
Cardamine nymanii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Wet meadows, marshes, margins of ponds, along streams, seacoasts, swamps |
Distribution |
AK; MB; NL; NT; NU; QC; YT; Greenland; n Eurasia
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 478. |
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Synonyms | C. pratensis var. angustifolia |
Name authority | Gandoger: Bull. Soc. Bot. France 72: 1043. (1925) |
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