Characteristics
Cardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.
Pennsylvania bitter cress
Swamps, stream banks, gravel bars in streams, small drainages, seepage areas, and marshes. A common species of wet habitats it mostly grows in saturated to seasonally slightly inundated often mucky soils.
Herbaceous
Biennial
Vascular
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Native
OBL (NWPL EMP)
FACW (NWPL NCNE)
S5 (State Rank)
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Classification
Eudicots
Brassicales
Cardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd. - Pennsylvania bitter cress
Citation
Cardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.
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Species Distribution Map
This species has been reported in the counties highlighted in the interactive distribution map below. Click on a county to display its name.