Cardamine cordifolia A. Gray (Q3574)

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Cardamine cordifolia is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cardamine
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Cardamine cordifolia A. Gray
Cardamine cordifolia is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cardamine

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    taxon/id/Cardamine cordifolia A. Gray
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    Cardamine cordifolia A. Gray
    Cardamine cordifolia
    A. Gray
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    cardamine à feuilles cordées (French)
    heart-leaved bittercress (English)
    large mountain bittercress (English)
    1 reference
    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    Flowering May–Aug.
    stream banks
    springs
    shady gullies
    creek bottoms
    lakeshores
    cold springs
    meadows
    moist hillsides
    mossy areas
    alpine streams
    mixed coniferous forests
    Rhizomes cylindrical, slender or stout, 1.5–3 mm diam., (not fleshy).
    Stems erect, unbranched or branched distally, 2–7 (–10.2) dm, glabrous or sparsely to densely puberulent basally or throughout.
    Rhizomal leaves usually absent, rarely present, simple, 5–15 cm;
    petiole 2.5–12 cm;
    blade reniform to cordate, 1.5–4.5 (–6) cm.
    Cauline leaves (3–) 5–17 (–23), simple or, rarely, proximalmost 3-foliolate, petiolate;
    petiole 1–6.5 (–8.5) cm, base not auriculate;
    blade reniform, deltate-cordate, or ovate-cordate, (1–) 2–7.2 (–9.7) cm × 10–55 (–85) mm, (somewhat fleshy), base cordate or truncate, margins crenate to slightly sinuate, (veins ending in apiculae, surfaces glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent).
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate to ascending, (7–) 10–20 mm.
    Flowers: sepals oblong, 2.5–4.5 × 1.5–2 mm, lateral pair slightly saccate basally;
    petals white, broadly obovate, 7–12 × 4–6 mm (claw to 6 mm, apex rounded to subtruncate or emarginate);
    filaments: median pairs 3.5–5 mm, lateral pair 2–3.5 mm;
    anthers oblong, 1–1.5 mm.
    (valves glabrous or sparsely puberulent);
    ovules 14–24 per ovary;
    style 0.5–3 (–6) mm.
    Seeds brown, oblong, 1.6–2 × 1–1.3 mm. 2n = 24.