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low yellow-cress, Modoc yellow-cress, slender yellowcress, watercress, yellow cress

Habit Annuals; (terrestrial or of wet habitat, not submerged); glabrous throughout.
Stems

(several-branched from base), prostrate to decumbent, branched distally, 0.7–3.5(–4) dm.

Basal leaves

not rosulate;

blade margins pinnatifid.

Cauline leaves

shortly petiolate, or (distal) sessile;

blade oblong to oblanceolate or lanceolate, (lateral lobes linear, oblong to ovate, or obovate), 2–9(–11) cm × 7–20(–30) mm, (lateral lobes smaller than terminal), base not auriculate, margins pinnatifid, or (lateral lobes) entire, dentate, or sinuate.

Racemes

elongated.

Flowers

sepals ascending, oblong, 0.7–1.3 × 0.4–0.7 mm;

petals yellow, oblong to oblanceolate or spatulate, 0.5–0.8 × 0.1–0.3 mm;

median filaments 0.8–1.2 mm;

anthers ovate, 0.1–0.2 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

ascending to divaricate, (1–)1.5–3.2(–4.2) mm, straight.

Fruits

siliques or silicles, curved-ascending, lanceolate to narrowly ovoid or oblong-lanceolate, 3–7(–9) × (0.8–)1–1.7(–2) mm (often slightly constricted at middle);

valves papillate;

ovules 20–80 per ovary;

style (0.2–)0.5–1 mm.

Seeds

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

Rorippa tenerrima

Phenology Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat Shores of lakes and ponds, mud flats, marshes, sand bars, moist grounds, streamsides
Elevation 1300-3000 m (4300-9800 ft)
Distribution
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CA; CO; ID; MO; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; TX; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua)
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Source FNA vol. 7, p. 505.
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. curvipes, R. curvisiliqua, R. dubia, R. indica, R. microtitis, R. palustris, R. ramosa, R. sessiliflora, R. sinuata, R. sphaerocarpa, R. subumbellata, R. sylvestris, R. teres
Synonyms Radicula tenerrima
Name authority Greene: Erythea 3: 46. (1895)
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