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Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare in NC

Look for it in seepages, streambanks, swampy depressions, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens

FRUIT:
Summer
Silique

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

Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p140
Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p060

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cardamine rotundifolia FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cardamine rotundifolia FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 088-23-006:
Cardamine rotundifolia FAMILY Brassicaceae

COMMON NAME:
Mountain Watercress, American Bittercress

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image of Cardamine rotundifolia, Mountain Watercress, American Bittercress

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_caro3_001_lvd

"Common names should be written in lower case unless part of the name is proper and then the first letter of only the proper term is capitalized. For example, sugar maple would be written with lower case letters while Japanese maple would be written with the capital J. This is the accepted method for writing common names in scientific circles and should be familiar to the student. In this text, and many others, common names are written with capital first letters. This was done to set the name off from the rest of the sentence and make it more evident to the reader. Actually in modern horticultural writings the capitalized common name predominates." — Michael Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants