Cardamine pensylvanica

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.

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Plant Photos
Photo by: Kimberly J. Smith - NYNHP/OPRHP. Photo taken: Columbia Co., NY: 19 Jul 2012 - 5
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Photo by: Andrew Nelson. Photo taken: Oswego Co., NY: 18 May 2012 - 1
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Photo by: Andrew Nelson. Photo taken: Oswego Co., NY: 18 May 2012 - 1
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Photo by: Andrew Nelson. Photo taken: Oswego Co., NY: 18 May 2012 - 1
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