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blunt-leaf yellow-cress, common yellow-cress, truncate yellowcress

Habit Annuals or, rarely, perennials; (short-lived, terrestrial or of wet habitat, not submerged); glabrous or hirsute, (trichomes cylindrical).
Stems

(few to several from base), usually ascending, decumbent, or prostrate, rarely erect, branched distally, 1–4.2(–5) dm, (hirsute proximally).

Basal leaves

not rosulate;

blade margins pinnatifid.

Cauline leaves

shortly petiolate or sessile;

blade oblong or oblanceolate to obovate, (terminal lobe oblong), (2–)3.5–10(–12) cm × (5–)10–30(–37) mm, (lateral lobe smaller than terminal), base usually auriculate, rarely amplexicaul, margins: proximal pinnatifid or sinuate, distal dentate or entire, (surfaces sparsely pubescent).

Racemes

elongated.

Flowers

sepals erect, oblong, 0.8–1.8 × 0.5–1 mm;

petals (erect), yellow, oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5–1.8 × 0.2–1 mm;

median filaments 0.9–1.3mm;

anthers ovate, 0.3–0.5 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

divaricate-ascending to horizontal, straight or recurved, (1.2–)1.7–5(–8) mm.

Fruits

silicles or siliques, curved, ovoid to pyriform, 2–8(–8.8) × (0.5–)1–2.5 mm;

valves glabrous;

ovules (20–)30–80 per ovary;

style 0.3–1 mm.

Seeds

biseriate, brown, cordiform, 0.5–0.7 mm, colliculate.

2n

= 16.

Rorippa curvipes

Phenology Flowering May–Sep.
Habitat Muddy shores of lakes and ponds, stream beds and banks, edges of cultivated fields, wet roadside, meadows, seepage areas, ditches, creeks, gravel bars
Elevation 100-3500 m (300-11500 ft)
Distribution
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AR; AZ; CA; CO; ID; IL; KS; MI; MN; MO; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; TX; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK; Mexico (Coahuila)
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Source FNA vol. 7, p. 499.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Cardamineae > Rorippa
Sibling taxa
R. alpina, R. amphibia, R. aquatica, R. austriaca, R. barbareifolia, R. calycina, R. columbiae, R. crystallina, R. curvisiliqua, R. dubia, R. indica, R. microtitis, R. palustris, R. ramosa, R. sessiliflora, R. sinuata, R. sphaerocarpa, R. subumbellata, R. sylvestris, R. tenerrima, R. teres
Synonyms Cardamine palustris var. jonesii, Radicula curvipes, Radicula integra, Radicula sinuata var. integra, Radicula sinuata var. truncata, Radicula underwoodii, R. curvipes var. integra, R. curvipes var. truncata, R. integra, R. obtusa var. integra, R. truncata, R. underwoodii
Name authority Greene: Pittonia 3: 97. (1896)
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