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Brassicaceae
Cardamine

not marked as a favorite taxon Cardamine Linnaeus. Common name: Bittercress, Toothwort.

Key to Cardamine

A genus of about 200 species, herbs, cosmopolitan. Dentaria is embedded within multiple clades of Cardamine and should be included in Cardamine (Sweeney & Price 2000; Carlsen et al. 2009; Huang et al. 2022); there is no basis for the recognition of Dentaria.

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Tribe: Cardamineae.

References: Al-Shehbaz (1988a); Al-Shehbaz, Marhold, & Lihová (2010) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2010); Carlsen (2009); Franzke et al. (1998); Huang et al. (2022); Marhold et al. (2016); Rollins (1993); Šlenker et al. (2018); Sweeney & Price (2000); Sweeney & Price (2001); Turner (2012b); Wieboldt (1992). Show full citations.

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image #1 of Cardamine© Scott Ward | Cardamine diphylla | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Cardamine© Keith Bradley | Cardamine pensylvanica | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Cardamine© Keith Bradley | Cardamine bulbosa | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Cardamine© Richard & Teresa Ware | Cardamine angustata CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG
image #5 of Cardamine© Erik Danielson | Cardamine douglassii source | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Cardamine© Mike Kunz | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Cardamine© Erik Danielson | Cardamine rotundifolia source | Original Image ⭷
image #9 of Cardamine© Erik Danielson | Cardamine impatiens source | Original Image ⭷
image #10 of Cardamine© Jim Fowler | Original Image ⭷

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