Cardamine clematitis Shuttlew.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Brassicaceae

• Scientific Name

  Cardamine clematitis Shuttlew.

• Description

  Species Description - Perennial from a slender rhizome, decumbent or ascending, 2–4 dm; basal and cauline lvs nearly alike, but the cauline gradually smaller and with shorter petioles, trifoliolate or the middle and upper often simple; petioles with a pair of small (0.5–4 mm) auricles at the base, or sometimes exauriculate; lfls obovate or rotund to broadly ovate or reniform, entire or commonly shallowly few-lobed, the terminal usually 2–5 cm long and wide, each lobe mucronate; pet white, 6–8 mm; mature pedicels ascending, 5–12 mm; frs erect or ascending, 2–4 cm, the beak 2–3 mm. Wet places in the mts.; Va. and s. W.Va. to S.C., Ga. and Tenn. Apr.–June. Plants without petiolar auricles are sometimes treated as a distinct sp., C. flagellifera O. E. Schulz (C. hugeri)

• Common Names

  Appalachian bitter-cress