Cardamine nymanii |
Cardamine purpurea |
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cuckoo bitter-cress, lady smock, northern field bitter-cress |
purple bittercress |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); glabrous. | Perennials; (often cespitose); hirsute. |
Rhizomes | absent. |
vertical, 1–3 mm diam., (not fleshy). |
Stems | erect, unbranched or, rarely, branched, 0.5–1.6(–3.5) dm. |
(simple or few to several from base), usually erect, unbranched, (0.3–)0.5–1.2(–1.5) 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. |
sometimes rosulate, usually 3 or 5-foliolate, rarely simple, (1.5–)2.5–7 cm, leaflets petiolulate or sessile; petiole (1.2–)2–5 cm; lateral lobes or leaflets sessile, blade similar to terminal, distinctly smaller; terminal lobe or leaflet petiolulate (0.05–0.6 cm), blade reniform or suborbicular to broadly ovate, 0.3–1 cm × 4–15 mm, base subcordate to rounded, margins entire, repand, or obscurely 2-toothed. |
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, usually compound, rarely simple, petiolate, leaflets petiolulate or sessile; petiole (0.2–)0.5–2 cm, base not auriculate; similar to basal, smaller. |
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 oblong, 2–3(–4) × 1.4–1.7 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals usually purple to pink, rarely white, obovate, 5–7(–9) × 3–4(–5) mm, (clawed, apex rounded); filaments: median pairs 2.5–3.5 mm, lateral pair 1.5–3.5 mm; anthers oblong, 0.6–0.9 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | erect-ascending, 5–15 mm. |
suberect, ascending, or divaricate, 5–12 mm, pubescent. |
Fruits | linear, 1–1.8 cm × ca. 1.5 mm; ovules ca. 16 per ovary; style ca. 1 mm, (stout). |
linear, 1.5–2.5 cm × 1.5–1.8 mm; ovules 10–14 per ovary; style 1–2.5 mm. |
Seeds | brown, oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. |
brown, oblong to broadly ovoid, 1.7–2.1 × 1.4–1.7 mm. |
2n | = 56, 60, 64, 80–100. |
= 96. |
Cardamine nymanii |
Cardamine purpurea |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Wet meadows, marshes, margins of ponds, along streams, seacoasts, swamps | Moist tundra, damp woods and ravines, alpine turf, river flats, peaty subarctic meadows, streamsides, moist slopes |
Elevation | 600-1800 m (2000-5900 ft) | |
Distribution |
AK; MB; NL; NT; NU; QC; YT; Greenland; n Eurasia
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AK; YT; e Asia (Russian Far East) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 478. | FNA vol. 7, p. 483. |
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Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | C. pratensis var. angustifolia | C. purpurea var. albiflora, C. purpurea var. albiflos, C. purpurea var. lactiflora |
Name authority | Gandoger: Bull. Soc. Bot. France 72: 1043. (1925) | Chamisso & Schlechtendal: Linnaea 1: 20. (1826) |
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