Family: Brassicaceae
Cardamine flexuosa
Citation:
With., Arr. Brit. Fl. edn 3:578 (1796).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Wood bitter cress.
Description:
Annual herb, rarely perennial, erect, to 50 cm tall, sparsely hirsute; basal leaves petiolate, pinnate, pinnae in 3-6 pairs, narrow-ovate to reniform; cauline leaves reducing.
Sepals c. 1.5 mm long, green-violet with white margins; petals 2.5-3 mm long, white; stamens 6, rarely fewer.
Siliqua linear, 10-25 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, erect, often overtopping the inflorescence, style c. 1 mm long; pedicels in fruit erect to spreading, 5-13 mm long; seeds ovoid, compressed, slightly winged, c. 1 mm long.
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Image source: fig 211a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Hegi (1960) Illustriete Flora von Mittel-Europa 4, 1 :t. 130.
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Distribution:
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Grows in moist places as a garden and glasshouse weed.
S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL, SE. Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Native to Europe and Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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