Cardamine blaisdellii

Eastwood

Bot. Gaz. 33: 146. 1902.

Synonyms: Cardamine microphylla subsp. blaisdellii (Eastwood) D. F. Murray & S. Kelso Cardamine microphylla var. blaisdellii (Eastwood) Khatri
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 468. Mentioned on page 464, 467.

Perennials; usually glabrous throughout, rarely pilose. Rhizomes cylindrical, slender, 0.7–1.5 mm diam. Stems erect or ascending, unbranched, 0.5–2 (–2.5) dm. Rhizomal leaves pinnately 5-foliolate or 7-foliolate, 2.5–12 cm (not fleshy), leaflets petiolulate; petiole 1.5–4 (–9) cm; lateral leaflets similar to terminal, or smaller and margins usually toothed, rarely entire; terminal leaflet (petiolule 0.15–0.3 cm) blade suborbicular to broadly obovate, 0.4–1.5 cm × 2.5–14 mm, base obtuse to subcordate, margins 3–5-toothed, (apiculate). Cauline leaves 1–3, (3–) 5-foliolate (alternate), petiolate, leaflets petiolulate or subsessile; petiole 0.2–2 (–6.5) cm, base not auriculate; lateral leaflets similar to terminal; terminal leaflet subsessile or petiolulate (to 0.2 cm), blade obovate to oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm × 3–10 mm, base cuneate, margins 3-toothed or entire. Racemes ebracteate. Fruiting pedicels erect to ascending, 0.7–22 mm. Flowers: sepals oblong, 2–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, lateral pair slightly saccate basally; petals white, broadly obovate, 7–10 × 3–6 mm (clawed, apex rounded); filaments: median pairs 3–4 mm, lateral pair 2–3 mm; anthers oblong, 1–1.5 mm. Fruits linear, 1.6–4 cm × 1–1.3 mm; ovules 14–24 per ovary; style 0.7–3 mm. Seeds brown, oblong, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm. 2n = 28, 42.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat: Moist streamsides, meadows, river gravel, mesic grounds, wet tundra, moist humus, scree slopes, calcareous fellfields
Elevation: 50-1000 m

Distribution

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Alaska, n, e Europe (Russian Far East), e Europe (Siberia)

Discussion

Cardamine blaisdellii was treated by R. C. Rollins (1993) as a synonym of C. microphylla, but the morphological differences (see key) and molecular data (R. B. Jørgensen et al., 2008) clearly demonstrate that they are distinct.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz +, Karol Marhold +  and Judita Lihová +
Eastwood +
cuneate +, not auriculate +, obtuse +  and subcordate +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
compound +  and trifoliolate +
lobed +, 1-3-pinnatisect +, toothed +  and entire +
obovate;oblanceolate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
branched +  and simple +
petiolate +  and (3-)5-foliolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
differentiated +
emarginate +  and entire +
Alaska +, n +, e Europe (Russian Far East) +  and e Europe (Siberia) +
50-1000 m +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
lateral +  and median +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
actinomorphic +
not basally +  and saccate +
lilac;purple;lilac;purple;pink;white +
ascending +, spreading +  and erect +
oblanceolate +, spatulate +, obovate +, oblong +  and ovate +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
angustiseptate +, 4-angled +  and terete +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
latiseptate +  and sessile +
torulose +, lanceolate +, oblong +  and linear +
Moist streamsides, meadows, river gravel, mesic grounds, wet tundra, moist humus, scree slopes, calcareous fellfields +
semiannular +  and annular +
compound +, pinnately +, trifoliolate +  and simple +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
basal +  and cauline +
subsessile +  and petiolulate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
entire;3-toothed;3-5-toothed +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
7mm;10mm +
rudimentary +
obovate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (6.5 cm65 mm <br />0.065 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Flowering Jul–Aug. +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
erect +  and ascending +
stout +  and slender +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br />) +
flattened +
7-foliolate +  and 5-foliolate +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
cylindrical +
not +  and mucilaginous +
winged +  and margined +
uniseriate +  and biseriate +
not +  and mucilaginous +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
erect +  and spreading or ascending +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
reduced +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
angustiseptate +, 4-angled +  and terete +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
angustiseptate +, 4-angled +  and terete +
tetradynamous +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
prostrate +  and decumbent +
ascending +  and erect +
2-lobed +, entire +, conical +  and capitate +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Cardamine microphylla subsp. blaisdellii +  and Cardamine microphylla var. blaisdellii +
Cardamine blaisdellii +
Cardamine +
species +
petiolulate +  and subsessile +
scale-like +  and forked +
pubescent +, , +  and glabrous +
anastomosing +
pilose +  and glabrous +
rhizomatous +, taprooted +, scapose +  and not +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
subshrub +  and herb +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +