Smallflower Bittercress
(Cardamine parviflora)
Seedling | Leaves | Flowers | Fruit |
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Growing habits: Erect delicate annual or biennial herb
Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot
Leaf anatomy: Basal leaves arranged in rosette, arranged alternately further up along stem, leaves of basal rosette larger than those located apically, pinnate, terminal leaflet oblong to broadly obovate; stem leaves terminal segment narrow to oblong, linear segments linear to linear-spatulate
Reproduction: Raceme inflorescence, 4 white corollas
References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice