Rorippa columbiae |
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Columbia cress, Columbia yellow-cress, Columbia yellowcress cress, Columbian yellowcress |
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Habit | Perennials; (terrestrial or of wet habitat, not submerged, with creeping roots and adventitious stems); pilose or hirsute. |
Stems | suberect or decumbent to prostrate, branched distally, 1–3.2(–4.1) dm, (pilose to hirsute). |
Basal leaves | absent. |
Cauline leaves | shortly petiolate or sessile; blade oblanceolate to oblong, (lateral lobes oblong to ovate, often reaching midrib), 2.4–5.2 cm × 5–12 mm, base auriculate or not, margins sinuate to pinnatifid or (lateral lobes) entire or dentate, (surfaces pilose). |
Racemes | elongated. |
Flowers | sepals (persistent), ascending, oblong, 2–3.5 × 0.8–1.5 mm, (pilose); petals yellow, oblanceolate to spatulate, 2.7–4.2 × 0.7–1.7 mm; median filaments 2–3.5 mm; anthers ovate, ca. 0.8 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | ascending, (subappressed to rachis), straight, (3–)4–10(–12) mm, (densely pilose). |
Fruits | silicles, straight, subglobose to oblong ellipsoid, (1.5–)2.5–5.5(–7) × (1–)1.7–2.8(–3.5) mm; valves densely pilose; ovules 24–40 per ovary; style 0.7–3.2 mm, (pilose). |
Seeds | biseriate, yellowish brown, ovoid-globose, 0.7–0.9 mm, prominently colliculate. |
Rorippa columbiae |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Stream banks, ditches, margins of lakes and ponds, meadows, roadsides, gravel bars, wet fields |
Elevation | 100-1600 m (300-5200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 499. |
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Synonyms | Nasturtium sinuatum var. columbiae, Nasturtium columbiae, Nasturtium sinuatum var. pubescens, Radicula columbiae, R. calycina var. columbiae, R. sinuata var. pubescens |
Name authority | (S. Watson) Howell: Fl. N.W. Amer., 40. (1897) |
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