American Bittercress blooming in Garrett Co., Maryland (5/23/2015).
American Bittercress in Garrett Co., Maryland (6/13/2014).
Leaves of American Bittercress in Garrett Co., Maryland (7/27/2019).
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Status
In Maryland, American Bittercress is currently only known from the Allegheny Plateau of Garrett County, where it grows along the banks of mountain streams and seeps. American Bittercress is considered a S3 watch-list species in Maryland.
Description
American Bittercress can be differentiated from other Maryland Cardamine species by having simple leaves that grow on many spreading stems that originate from the base of the plant.
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An American Bittercress in Garrett Co., Maryland (5/25/2013).
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Ed Boyd.
American Bittercress blooming in Garrett Co., Maryland (5/23/2015).
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Jim Brighton.
American Bittercress in Garrett Co., Maryland (5/25/2013).
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Ed Boyd.
American Bittercress in Garrett Co., Maryland (6/13/2014).
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Jim Stasz.
Leaves of American Bittercress in Garrett Co., Maryland (7/27/2019).
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Source: Wikipedia
| Cardamine rotundifolia | |
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| A depiction of Cardamine rotundifolia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Cardamine |
| Species: | C. rotundifolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Cardamine rotundifolia Michx.
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Cardamine rotundifolia, also known as American bittercress or mountain bittercress, is a perennial herbaceous brassica native to eastern North America.[1] It was first described by André Michaux in his publication Flora Boreali-Americana (1803).
References
[edit]- ^ Carlsen, Tor; Bleeker, Walter; Hurka, Herbert; Elven, Reidar; Brochmann, Christian (2009). "Biogeography and Phylogeny of "Cardamine" (Brassicaceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 96 (2): 215–236. doi:10.3417/2007047. ISSN 0026-6493. JSTOR 40389931.