Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Cardamine parviflora var. arenicola
Cardamine parviflora L. var. arenicola (Britton) O.E. Schulz
Sand Bittercress
Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)
USDA Symbol: CAPAA2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Cardamine parviflora var. arenicola
Sand Bittercress
Brassicaceae
Location: 85 Campden Circle, Southwest yard--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio. Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Small colony on sunny site, in loose, damp neutral soil.
Description: Ascending annual to 20 cm, few stalks, much branched, 4-angled, 1 mm thick from fiberous roots. Leaves mostly above, 5-pinnate. Leaflets: 2 pair to 7x9 mm, varied in shape; terminal one 10-13 mm long with 3 rounded lobes. Infloresence upper axillary racemes, to 11 cm long, elongating in fruit. Flowers crowded; petals-4, white, clawed. Fruit ascending, linear, 1x15 mm.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jan 13, 1994
Specimen number: 518
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0779
Accession Date: May 26, 1994
Accession Number: 58
Annotations: (In flower & fruit)
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