Cardamine corymbosa Hook.F.

Cardamine en corymbe (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Brassicaceae > Cardamine

Characteristics

Rhizomatous perennial herb. Stems ascending or decumbent, glabrous, purplish or green, bearing persistent crowded lf bases below, (2)-5-10-(20) cm tall. Lvs not dying back after fruiting, in compact rosettes, often whorled on older stems, glabrous, or hairy on upper surface, green, thin or rarely sub-fleshy. Basal lvs pinnate or entire; petiole long; terminal leaflet > laterals, not lobed, rarely sinuate, reniform to triangular-ovate; lateral leaflets in 0-2-(4) pairs, obovate or elliptic, entire; petiolules short or 0. Cauline lvs few or 0, similar to basal, usually smaller and entire. Infl. corymbose or whorled, sometimes forking; peduncle glabrous, (0)-2-15 cm long, often suppressed giving the appearance of many solitary pedicels. Pedicels glabrous, slender, ascending, 5-20-(100) mm long at fruiting. Sepals glabrous or hairy, purplish or green, 1-1.8 × 0.4-1 mm. Petals white, erect or spreading, spathulate (narrow in subantarctic plants), (2)-3-4.5-(6) × (1)-1.5-(3) mm, rarely 0. Stamens 4 or 6. Cleistogamous fls produced in late summer and autumn, borne among petioles: sepals c. 0.5 mm long; petals 0-0.5 mm long; stamens 4; ovary very small. Silique brown or purplish, erect or erecto-patent, 10-20-(30) × 0.5-1-(2) mm; valves glabrous or hairy; style (0)-1 mm long. Seeds oblong, yellow to pale brown, 1-(1.5) mm long.
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Perennial glabrate to pilose slender herb, with rather stout branched stock, stems decumbent to ascending, up to 10 cm. long, very slender, somewhat flexuose. Lvs scattered, few, on slender to filiform petioles up to 3 cm. or more long, simple to trifoliolate, rarely with a further pair of minute pinnules; terminal lflt broad-ovate to suborbicular, cordate to broad-cuneate at base, up to c. 1 cm. × 7·5 mm., shallowly lobed· to entire. Aerial fls solitary to clustered or corymbosely arranged, on slender pedicels c. 3-4 cm. long; sepals oblong, up to 2 mm. long; petals white, obovate, up to c. 3 mm. long, rarely obsolescent, shortly clawed. Siliques 1-2 cm. × 1-1·5 mm.; style hardly 1mm. long. Subterranean cleistogamic fls apetalous, solitary, on recurved peduncles; sepals minute; stamens minute, 1 to 4; siliques conical, c. 3-5 mm. long, curved; seeds 1-6.
Small annual or possibly perennial herb, hirsute to almost glabrous; stems less than 3 cm long, sometimes stoloniferous. Leaves rosulate, reniform to spathulate to   long, entire, rarely with 1 or 2 pairs of tiny lobes, petiolate, Flowers solitary; peduncles c. 1 cm long. Sepals 1–2 mm long, sometimes purple pigmented with white margins, hirsute. Petals 3–3.5 mm long, white. Stamens 4. Style less than 1 mm long. Siliqua linear, c. 1 cm long, c. 1 mm wide, erect. Seeds ovoid to oblong, 1 mm long, compressed.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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Images

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Distribution

Cardamine corymbosa world distribution map, present in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:280246-1
WFO ID wfo-0000586674
COL ID R4C6
BDTFX ID 98325
INPN ID 717736
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Synonyms

Cardamine corymbosa Cardamine uniflora Cardamine heterophylla var. uniflora Cardamine hirsuta var. corymbosa Cardamine hirsuta var. uniflora