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Photographer: Steve C. Garske
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Family Brassicaceae
Nasturtium microphyllum Boenn. ex Rchb.
one-row yellow-cress, watercress
Nasturtium: Latin nasus for “nose” and tortum for “to twist”, referring to the pungent taste
microphyllum: micro for "small;" phyllon for "leaf"
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect or spreading, perennial, 4"-18" tall, emergent aquatic, sometimes evergreen, forming large, tangled masses; stems spreading; rooting from the lower nodes |
| Flower: | white, 4-parted, 1/5" wide, petals 2 times longer than the sepals; inflorescence a cluster (raceme) of stalked flowers from the ends of the shoots |
| Fruit: | pod, long, thin; coarse seeds in 1 rows |
| Leaf: | pinnately-divided into 3-9 rounded leaflets with the end one longest |
| Habitat: | sun; wet; streams, springs, cold water; in limy, sediment, gravelly soil |
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