253

Forb
Winter annual

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in various habitats, primarily seasonally wet areas with shallow soil or sand, also on mafic outcrop glades, as on greenstone, diabase, and nutrient-rich granites, per Weakley's Flora

To see a detailed map, click here

 

...Wet

LEAVES:
Stem leaves pinnately divided: 5-15(17) leaflets
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals

FRUIT:
Spring
Silique

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p150?
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p020
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p112
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p059?

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cardamine parviflora var. arenicola   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cardamine parviflora var. arenicola   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 088-23-012:
Cardamine parviflora var. arenicola   FAMILY Brassicaceae

LESS THAN Flora of North America
Cardamine parviflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cardamine arenicola