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Cardamine bellidifolia L.
alpine bittercress

       
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Line Drawing of Cardamine bellidifolia L.
Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 2: 186. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.
 
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Cardamine bellidifolia L.

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Distribution:
Cardamine bellidifolia L.

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Distribution Map Legend

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:

USA (AK, CA, ME, NH, OR, WA), CAN (AB, BC, LB, NF, NT, NU, QC, YT), DEN (GL)
 

Related Taxa:
Cardamine bellidifolia L.

View 107 genera in Brassicaceae, 40 species in Cardamine or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.
Distribution of Cardamine bellidifolia L. var. bellidifolia. .
Cardamine bellidifolia var. bellidifolia
alpine bittercress
Distribution of Cardamine bellidifolia L. var. pachyphylla Coville & Leiberg. .
Cardamine bellidifolia var. pachyphylla
alpine bittercress
Plant is native (blue) Native   Plant is introduced Introduced
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Classification:
Cardamine bellidifolia L.

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Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Dilleniidae
Order Capparales
Family Brassicaceae – Mustard family
Genus Cardamine L. – bittercress
Species Cardamine bellidifolia L. – alpine bittercress
 

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Cardamine bellidifolia L.

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Maine:
alpine bitter-cress              Endangered
New Hampshire:
alpine bitter-cress              Endangered
 

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Cardamine bellidifolia L.

Nat. Ind. Reg. 1 Reg. 2 Reg. 3 Reg. 4 Reg. 5 Reg. 6 Reg. 7 Reg. 8 Reg. 9 Reg. 0 Reg. A Reg. C Reg. H
FAC,FACW FACW NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NI NI* FAC NO NO
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More Accounts and Images:
Cardamine bellidifolia L.

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 22780.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

 
 
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