Cardamine micranthera
| Cardamine micranthera | |
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| In a stream in Patrick County, Virginia, USA | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Cardamine |
| Species: | C. micranthera
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| Binomial name | |
| Cardamine micranthera Rollins
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Cardamine micranthera is a rare species of flowering plant in the
extirpated and five others there had no specimens found at the most recent survey.[1]
This is a perennial herb producing a slender, sometimes branching stem 20 to 40 centimeters tall. The leaves are alternately arranged and mostly simple, but the basal leaves may have small lobes. Each flower has four small white petals and stamens with tiny rounded anthers. The fruit is a silique around a centimeter long. The plant may be distinguished from its relative Cardamine rotundifolia by its smaller, rounder anthers, smaller petals, and shorter fruits.[1][4]
This plant occurs in moist and wet, shady areas near streams, on sand and gravel bars within the stream bed and in dim woodlands. have been listed as threats, as well.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k NatureServe (5 April 2024). "Cardamine micranthera". NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "Small-anthered bittercress (Cardamine micranthera)". Environmental Conservation Online System. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d Murdock, Nora; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (21 September 1989). "Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Small Anthered Bittercress Determined To Be Endangered". Federal Register. 54 (182): 38947–38950. 54 FR 38947
- ^ a b c d Center for Plant Conservation Archived December 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "1996 National List of Vascular Plant Species That Occur in Wetlands" (PDF). Ecology Section, National Wetlands Inventory, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. January 24, 1997. Retrieved 14 April 2024 – via United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.