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Florida yellowcress

Habit Plants usually glabrous throughout, rarely sparsely pubescent.
Stems

1.5–9 dm.

Cauline leaves

petiole not winged, base not auriculate;

blade 3–5(–7)-foliolate, (1.5–)3–7(–10) cm;

lateral leaflets petiolulate, rachis not winged, blade often much smaller than terminal;

terminal leaflets (or simple blade) subreniform, orbicular, ovate to oblong, or obovate, 0.5–3.5 × 0.5–3 cm, base obtuse, subcordate, rounded, or cuneate, margins repand, entire, or, rarely, obtusely dentate, apex obtuse or rounded.

Flowers

sepals 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm;

petals white, spatulate, 4–5 × 1.5–2 mm, apex rounded;

filaments 2–3 mm;

anthers 0.6–0.9 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

divaricate, straight or slightly recurved, 5–15 mm.

Fruits

1.5–3 cm × 0.9–1.2 mm;

ovules 34–50 per ovary;

style 0.5–2.5 mm.

Seeds

uniseriate, light or yellowish brown, ovoid, 0.6–0.8(–0.9) × 0.4–0.7 mm, minutely reticulate with 400–500 areolae on each side.

2n

= 32.

Nasturtium floridanum

Phenology Flowering Feb–Oct.
Habitat Flowing streams, hummock margins, springs, swamps, stream banks
Elevation 0-50 m (0-200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL
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Discussion

Nasturtium floridanum is known from Brevard, Citrus, Clay, Collier, Columbia, Dade, Duval, Gilchrist, Hillsborough, Lake, Levy, Manatee, Marion, Seminole, Sumter, Taylor, Volusia, and Wakulla counties.

Nasturtium stylosum Shuttleworth ex O. E. Schulz (1936), not (de Candolle) O. E. Schulz ex Cheesman (1911) is an illegitimate name, sometimes found in synonymy with N. floridanum.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 492.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Cardamineae > Nasturtium
Sibling taxa
N. gambelii, N. microphyllum, N. officinale
Synonyms Rorippa floridana, N. stylosum
Name authority (Al-Shehbaz & Rollins) Al-Shehbaz & R. A. Price: Novon 8: 125. (1998)
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