Cardamine microphylla Adams (Q3581)

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Cardamine microphylla is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cardamine
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Cardamine microphylla Adams
Cardamine microphylla is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cardamine

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    taxon/id/Cardamine microphylla Adams
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    Cardamine microphylla Adams
    Cardamine microphylla
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Cardamine microphylla
    cardamine à petites feuilles (French)
    small-leaved bittercress (English)
    little-leaved bittercress (English)
    1 reference
    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
    1 reference
    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
    e Asia (Russian Far East)
    e Asia (Siberia)
    Flowering Jul–Aug.
    streamsides
    cobbles
    gravel bars
    shale banks
    floodplains
    alluvial sand
    cobbles
    moist moss
    seepage areas
    meadows
    wet grounds
    Rhizomes cylindrical, slender, 0.7–1.5 mm diam.
    Stems erect or ascending, unbranched, 0.3–1.5 (–2) dm.
    Rhizomal leaves pinnately 5 or 7-foliolate, (1.3–) 2.5–6.5 cm, (not fleshy), leaflets petiolulate;
    petiole (0.5–) 1.5–5.5 cm;
    lateral leaflets similar to terminal, blade sometimes smaller;
    terminal leaflet (petiolule 0.15–0.7 cm), blade ovate to elliptic, (0.2–) 0.4–1.2 (–1.5) cm × (1–) 2.5–6 mm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins entire, (apiculate).
    Cauline leaves 1–3, 5 or 7-foliolate, petiolate, leaflets petiolulate or subsessile;
    petiole 0.2–1.5 cm, base not auriculate;
    lateral leaflets similar to terminal;
    terminal leaflet (subsessile or petiolule to 0.2 cm), blade ovate to elliptic, 0.6–1.3 × 0.1–0.7 cm, base cuneate, margins entire.
    Fruiting pedicels erect to ascending, 7–15 (–25) mm.
    Flowers: sepals ovate to oblong, 3–4 × 1.8–2.5 mm, lateral pair slightly saccate basally;
    petals usually white, rarely lavender, broadly obovate, 7–10 × 3–6 mm, (clawed, apex rounded);
    filaments: median pairs 3–4.5 mm, lateral pair 2–3 mm;
    anthers oblong, 1–1.5 mm.
    Fruits linear, 2–3 cm × 1.2–1.7 mm;
    ovules 12–16 per ovary;
    Seeds brown, oblong, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm. 2n = 28, 42, 64.