Cardamine breweri S. Watson (Q3571)

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Cardamine breweri is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cardamine
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Cardamine breweri S. Watson
Cardamine breweri is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cardamine

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    Cardamine breweri S. Watson
    Cardamine breweri
    S. Watson
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    cardamine de Brewer (French)
    Brewer's bittercress (English)
    Flowering Jun–Jul.
    stream banks
    seepage
    lakeshores
    creeks
    wet meadows
    swamps
    Rhizomes cylindrical, slender (rarely slightly thickened at stem base), 1–3 (–4) mm diam.
    Stems erect or decumbent basally, unbranched or branched, (0.6–) 1.5–6 (–7) dm.
    Rhizomal leaves absent.
    Cauline leaves 3–8 (–11), 3 or 5-foliolate (rarely only terminal leaflet present), petiolate, leaflets petiolulate or subsessile;
    petiole (0.7–) 1–4 (–6) cm, base not auriculate;
    lateral leaflets (when present) subsessile or petiolulate (to 0.4 cm), blade similar to terminal, often much smaller and narrower than terminal;
    terminal leaflet (petiolule 0.4–1.6 cm), blade usually ovate to orbicular, rarely subcordate, 1.5–4 (–5) cm × 15–35 (–50) mm, base truncate, rounded, or cordate, margins crenate, dentate, sinuate, or to 11-lobed.
    Fruiting pedicels ascending to divaricate-ascending, (7–) 10–20 mm.
    Flowers: sepals oblong, 2–3 (–3.8) × 1–1.5 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally;
    petals white, oblanceolate, 3.5–6 (–7) × 1.5–2.5 (–3) mm (not clawed, apex rounded or ± emarginate);
    filaments: median pairs 2.5–3.5 mm, lateral pair 2–2.5 mm;
    anthers oblong, 0.7–1 mm.
    Fruits linear, 1.5–3.5 cm × 1–1.5 mm;
    ovules 14–28 per ovary;
    style 0.2–1.5 (–2.5) mm.
    Seeds brown, oblong, 1–1.6 × 0.9–1.1 mm.