2024 Edition • Get the App • Cite this Page
X

Colors

Data mode

Account

Login
Sign up

Collapse this

Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
  • Add Global Conservation Ranks (GRanks) vote
  • Professional graphic keys (polyclaves) to individual families/genera vote
  • 2 new FloraQuest apps: Florida & Mid-South vote
  • Image overlays highlighting diagnostic characters with arrows vote
  • iNaturalist integration in FloraQuest vote
Write-in vote: vote
We've set a goal of recruiting 200 ongoing supporters to donate $15 or more each month in 2025. Please help us reach this goal and make next year's flora even better:
Donate $15 per month
(0.2¢/heliophily index)
Donate $30 per month
(0.4¢/heliophily index)
Donate $50 per month
(amazing!)
Donate another
or one-time amount
Copy permalink to share

Cardamine flagellifera O.E. Schulz. Large-flowered Blue Ridge Bittercress. Phen: Mar-May; Jun-Jul. Hab: In seepages, on streambanks, and in moist cove or bottomland forests, mainly at moderate to low elevations. Dist: C. flagellifera is endemic to the Southern Appalachians of w. NC, SC, e. TN, GA, VA, and WV.

Taxonomy Comments: Cardamine flagellifera is completely distinct from C. clematitis, as pointed out by Dudley (1974). Rollins's division of Cardamine flagellifera into two varieties (following Small's recognition of two species) needs further evaluation. Var. flagellifera is alleged to have petals 6-9 mm long, stamens shorter than the petals by 1 mm or more, sepals 3-4 mm long, and filaments obviously flattened, vs. (in var. hugeri) petals 4-6 mm long, stamens equaling to slightly exceeding the petals, sepals 2.5-3.5 mm long, and filaments terete to somewhat flattened.

Synonymy ⓘ: = C, FNA7, K3, K4, S13, Tn, Va, W, Al-Shehbaz (1988a); = Cardamine clematitis Shuttlew. ex A.Gray – F, GW2, RAB, misapplied; > Cardamine flagellifera O.E.Schulz – S; > Cardamine flagellifera O.E.Schulz var. flagellifera – K1, Rollins (1993); > Cardamine flagellifera O.E.Schulz var. hugeri (Small) Rollins – K1, Rollins (1993); > Cardamine hugeri Small – S

Links to other floras: = Cardamine flagellifera - FNA7

Show in key(s)

Show parent genus

Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACU (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 2

Your browser does not support SVGs

Hover over a shape, letter, icon, or arrow on the map for definition or see the legend.

image of plantno rights reserved, uploaded by Alan Weakley source CC0 | Original Image ⭷
image of plantno rights reserved, uploaded by Mason Brock source CC0 | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Michael J. Papay, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Michael J. Papay source CC-BY | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Michael J. Papay, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Michael J. Papay source CC-BY | Original Image ⭷

Feedback

See something wrong or missing on about Cardamine flagellifera? Let us know here: (Please include your name and email if at all complicated so we can clarify if needed.) We greatly appreciate feedback, and will include updates from you in our next webapp update, which can take a few months.