Smallflower Bittercress

(Cardamine parviflora)

Smallflower bittercress

Characteristics
Seedling Leaves Flowers Fruit
Smallflower bittercress seedling smallflower bittercress leaves smallflower bittercress flowers Smallflower bittercress fruit

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