Cardamine nymanii |
Cardamine microphylla |
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cuckoo bitter-cress, lady smock, northern field bitter-cress |
small-leaf bittercress |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); glabrous. | Perennials; usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hirtellous. |
Rhizomes | absent. |
cylindrical, slender, 0.7–1.5 mm diam. |
Stems | erect, unbranched or, rarely, branched, 0.5–1.6(–3.5) dm. |
erect or ascending, unbranched, 0.3–1.5(–2) 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, (1.3–)2.5–6.5 cm, (not fleshy), leaflets petiolulate; petiole (0.5–)1.5–5.5 cm; lateral leaflets similar to terminal, blade sometimes smaller; terminal leaflet (petiolule 0.15–0.7 cm), blade ovate to elliptic, (0.2–)0.4–1.2(–1.5) cm × (1–)2.5–6 mm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins entire, (apiculate). |
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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. |
1–3, 5 or 7-foliolate, petiolate, leaflets petiolulate or subsessile; petiole 0.2–1.5 cm, base not auriculate; lateral leaflets similar to terminal; terminal leaflet (subsessile or petiolule to 0.2 cm), blade ovate to elliptic, 0.6–1.3 × 0.1–0.7 cm, base cuneate, margins entire. |
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 to oblong, 3–4 × 1.8–2.5 mm, lateral pair slightly saccate basally; petals usually white, rarely lavender, broadly obovate, 7–10 × 3–6 mm, (clawed, apex rounded); filaments: median pairs 3–4.5 mm, lateral pair 2–3 mm; anthers oblong, 1–1.5 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | erect-ascending, 5–15 mm. |
erect to ascending, 7–15(–25) mm. |
Fruits | linear, 1–1.8 cm × ca. 1.5 mm; ovules ca. 16 per ovary; style ca. 1 mm, (stout). |
linear, 2–3 cm × 1.2–1.7 mm; ovules 12–16 per ovary; style 1–2 mm. |
Seeds | brown, oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. |
brown, oblong, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm. |
2n | = 56, 60, 64, 80–100. |
= 28, 42, 64. |
Cardamine nymanii |
Cardamine microphylla |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Wet meadows, marshes, margins of ponds, along streams, seacoasts, swamps | Streamsides, sand and cobbles on gravel bars, shale banks, floodplains, alluvial sand between cobbles, moist moss, turf, seepage areas, meadows, wet grounds |
Elevation | 0-1600 m (0-5200 ft) | |
Distribution |
AK; MB; NL; NT; NU; QC; YT; Greenland; n Eurasia
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AK; NT; YT; e Asia (Russian Far East, Siberia) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 478. | FNA vol. 7, p. 477. |
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Synonyms | C. pratensis var. angustifolia | C. minuta |
Name authority | Gandoger: Bull. Soc. Bot. France 72: 1043. (1925) | Adams: Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 111. (1817) |
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