Cardamine douglassii Britton (Q3577)

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Cardamine douglassii is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cardamine
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Cardamine douglassii Britton
Cardamine douglassii is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cardamine

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    taxon/id/Cardamine douglassii Britton
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    Cardamine douglassii Britton
    Cardamine douglassii
    Britton
    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 Douglass (French)
    limestone bittercress (English)
    purple cress (English)
    purple spring cress (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
    Flowering Mar–May.
    rich woods
    bluffs
    mesic bottomland forests
    rocky hillsides
    floodplains
    seepage
    springy areas
    Rhizomes (tuberous at stem base), subglobose, (lobed or not), (3–) 4–10 mm diam., (fleshy).
    Stems erect, unbranched, (0.7–) 1–2.5 (–3) dm, sparsely to densely hirsute, or glabrous basally, (trichomes (0.2–) 0.3–0.6 (–0.8) mm).
    Rhizomal leaves simple, (3–) 5–15 (–18) cm;
    petiole (2–) 4–12 (–16) cm;
    blade often orbicular to cordate, sometimes reniform or ovate, (1–) 2–6 cm × (7–) 17–50 mm, base obtuse to cordate, margins repand or entire.
    (middle) shortly petiolate or (distal) sessile, base not auriculate;
    blade oblong to ovate or lanceolate, 2–5 cm × 5–25 mm, margins entire, repand, or coarsely dentate.
    Fruiting pedicels ascending to divaricate, (10–) 15–35 (–50) mm, sparsely pubescent or glabrous.
    Flowers: sepals oblong, 2.5–4 (–6) × 1.5–2.5 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally, (surfaces often hirsute);
    petals usually rose-purple to pink, rarely white, obovate, (7–) 8–13 (–15) × 3–5 mm, (short-clawed, apex rounded);
    filaments: median pairs 4–7 mm, lateral pair 2–4 mm;
    anthers oblong, 1.3–1.7 mm.
    Fruits linear, (1.5–) 2–4 cm × 1.5–2 mm;
    ovules 10–16 per ovary;
    style 2–5 mm.
    Seeds brown, oblong to ovoid, 1.7–2.5 × 1–5 mm. 2n = 56, 64, 96, 112, 144.