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Photographer: Christopher Noll
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Family Brassicaceae
Cardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
spring-cress
Cardamine: originally from the Greek kardamon used by Dioscorides for some cress, maybe used in treating heart ailments
bulbosa: bulbous, swollen
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual to perennial, 10"-40" tall forb; short, tuber-like rhizomes |
| Flower: | white, 4-parted, 1/2"- 1" wide, green sepals turning yellow with age; inflorescence a rounded cluster (raceme) of stalked flowers elongating at maturity; blooms April-June |
| Fruit: | long, thin, erect pods |
| Leaf: | basal leaves not toothed or lobed, stalked, roundish; the 5-10 stem leaves wavy to slightly toothed, thinly oblong and mostly stalkless |
| Habitat: | wet to moist; woods, meadows, spring seeps near streams |
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 Britton, Sterns @ Poggenb.&phog=Paul Drobot&spcode=CARBUL1)
 Britton, Sterns @ Poggenb.&phog=Robert Bierman&spcode=CARBUL1)
