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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cardamine bulbosa
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
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Learn more about Bulbous Bittercress from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cardamine bulbosa
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Cardamine bulbosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH The genera of Arabideae (Cruciferae; Brassicaceae) in the southeastern United States (Al-Shehbaz, 1988a)
Cardamine rhomboidea
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-23-004:
Cardamine bulbosa FAMILY Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cardamine bulbosa
COMMON NAME:
Bulbous Bittercress, Spring Cress
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cabu3_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_cabu3_005_lvd
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Rusty Wilson fkw_007
March Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
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Rusty Wilson fkw_011
March Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Basal leaves entire to dentate, green beneath, roundish, to 1.6" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Rusty Wilson fkw_090
April Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
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Rusty Wilson fkw_093
April Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
The 4-8 stem leaves are reduced, narrowly oblong or ovate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Rusty Wilson fkw_096b
April Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
4 petals about 0.5" long. Flowers on stalks ~0.4" long, in terminal raceme, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm110415_547
April Carroll County GA
Green sepals fade to yellow after flowering, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bulbosa_4942
April Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bulbosa_4946
April Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bulbosa_4949
April Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
Stem leaves reduced, narrowly oblong or ovate, the upper ones sessile, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bulbosa_4963
April Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_cardamine_bulbosa_2
April
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_cardamine_bulbosa_6
April
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cardamine bulbosa
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cardamine bulbosa
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Cardamine bulbosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The genera of Arabideae (Cruciferae; Brassicaceae) in the southeastern United States (Al-Shehbaz, 1988a)
Cardamine rhomboidea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-23-004:
Cardamine bulbosa
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cardamine bulbosa
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: swampy forests and bogs, primarily (but not strictly) in circumneutral soils over limestone or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate (4-12 stem leaves)
FLOWER:
Spring
White
(rarely pinkish)
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Silique
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p128
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p222
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p282
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p140
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p101
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p087
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p113
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p060
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