Rorippa tenerrima |
Rorippa curvipes |
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low yellow-cress, Modoc yellow-cress, slender yellowcress, watercress, yellow cress |
blunt-leaf yellow-cress, common yellow-cress, truncate yellowcress |
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Habit | Annuals; (terrestrial or of wet habitat, not submerged); glabrous throughout. | Annuals or, rarely, perennials; (short-lived, terrestrial or of wet habitat, not submerged); glabrous or hirsute, (trichomes cylindrical). |
Stems | (several-branched from base), prostrate to decumbent, branched distally, 0.7–3.5(–4) dm. |
(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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 | ascending to divaricate, (1–)1.5–3.2(–4.2) mm, straight. |
divaricate-ascending to horizontal, straight or recurved, (1.2–)1.7–5(–8) mm. |
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. |
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, reddish brown, cordiform, 0.5–0.7 mm, colliculate. |
biseriate, brown, cordiform, 0.5–0.7 mm, colliculate. |
2n | = 16. |
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Rorippa tenerrima |
Rorippa curvipes |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Oct. | Flowering May–Sep. |
Habitat | Shores of lakes and ponds, mud flats, marshes, sand bars, moist grounds, streamsides | Muddy shores of lakes and ponds, stream beds and banks, edges of cultivated fields, wet roadside, meadows, seepage areas, ditches, creeks, gravel bars |
Elevation | 1300-3000 m (4300-9800 ft) | 100-3500 m (300-11500 ft) |
Distribution |
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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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. 505. | FNA vol. 7, p. 499. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Cardamineae > Rorippa | Brassicaceae > tribe Cardamineae > Rorippa |
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Synonyms | Radicula tenerrima | 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: Erythea 3: 46. (1895) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 97. (1896) |
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