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Cardamine Linnaeus. Common name: Bittercress, Toothwort.

Key to Cardamine

A genus of about 200 species, herbs, cosmopolitan. Dentaria should apparently be included (Sweeney & Price 2000).

References: Al-Shehbaz (1988a); Al-Shehbaz, Marhold, & Lihová (2010) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2010); Franzke et al. (1998); Marhold et al. (2016); Rollins (1993); Šlenker et al. (2018); Sweeney & Price (2000); Sweeney & Price (2001); Wieboldt (1992). Show full citations.

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image of plant© Scott Ward | Cardamine diphylla | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Keith Bradley | Cardamine pensylvanica | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Keith Bradley | Cardamine bulbosa | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Cardamine angustata CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Erik Danielson | Cardamine douglassii source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Mike Kunz | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Erik Danielson | Cardamine rotundifolia source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Erik Danielson | Cardamine impatiens source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Jim Fowler | Original Image ⭷

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