Cardamine nymanii |
Cardamine digitata |
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cuckoo bitter-cress, lady smock, northern field bitter-cress |
Richardson's bittercress |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); glabrous. | Perennials; glabrous throughout. |
Rhizomes | absent. |
cylindrical, slender, 0.5–1.5 mm diam. |
Stems | erect, unbranched or, rarely, branched, 0.5–1.6(–3.5) dm. |
erect, unbranched, (0.6–)1–2(–3) 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 | pinnately 5 or 7-foliolate, (2–)4–10 cm, (not fleshy), leaflets sessile; petiole (1.5–)3–7(–9) cm; lateral leaflets similar to terminal, blade sometimes smaller; terminal leaflet blade linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly lanceolate, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3.3) cm × 0.5–4(–8) mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins entire. |
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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. |
(1 or) 2 or 3, 5 or 7-foliolate, petiolate, leaflets sessile; petiole (0.2–)0.5–1.2(–1.5) cm, base not auriculate; lateral leaflets similar to terminal, blade smaller; terminal leaflet blade narrowly lanceolate to linear, 1–3.2(–4) cm × 0.8–2.5(–3.5) mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins entire (apex acute to acuminate). |
Racemes | ebracteate. |
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. |
sepals ovate, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white, obovate, 5–9 × 2.5–5 mm (clawed, apex rounded); filaments: median pairs 3–4.5 mm, lateral pair 1.5–2.5 mm; anthers oblong, 1–1.5 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | erect-ascending, 5–15 mm. |
suberect to divaricate-ascending, (7–)10–25 mm. |
Fruits | linear, 1–1.8 cm × ca. 1.5 mm; ovules ca. 16 per ovary; style ca. 1 mm, (stout). |
linear, (1.5–)2–4 cm × 1.5–2 mm; ovules 6–12 per ovary; style (1–)1.5–2.5(–4) mm. |
Seeds | brown, oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. |
brown, oblong, 1.8–2.2 × 0.9–1.1 mm. |
2n | = 56, 60, 64, 80–100. |
= 28, 42. |
Cardamine nymanii |
Cardamine digitata |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Wet meadows, marshes, margins of ponds, along streams, seacoasts, swamps | Damp flats, stream banks, tundra, meadows, bluffs, hummocks, sandy beaches, slopes, mossy mats, sedge swales |
Elevation | 0-1400 m (0-4600 ft) | |
Distribution |
AK; MB; NL; NT; NU; QC; YT; Greenland; n Eurasia
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AK; NT; YT; ne Asia (Russian Far East, Siberia) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 478. | FNA vol. 7, p. 472. |
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Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | C. pratensis var. angustifolia | C. digitata var. oxyphylla, C. hyperborea, C. hyperborea var. oxyphylla, C. richardsonii |
Name authority | Gandoger: Bull. Soc. Bot. France 72: 1043. (1925) | Richardson: in J. Franklin, Narr. Journey Polar Sea, 743. (1823) |
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