Cardamine micranthera Rollins

Locations ofCardamine micranthera Rollins in Virginia

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Family
Brassicaceae
Botanical Name
Cardamine micranthera Rollins
Common Name
Small-anthered Bittercress
Synonym(s)
Flora of Virginia Name/Status
Cardamine micranthera Rollins
Comments
Endemic to North Carolina and Virginia. Its discovery in Virginia is described briefly in Banisteria 1:16-17 (1992). Molecular studies demostrate an extremely close relationship to C. rotundifolia from which it is probably recently derived.
Habitat
Small-stream sand and gravel bars, swampy floodplain forests, and rocky seeps. Rare in the far sw. Piedmont; known only from Patrick County.
Native Status
Native

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