Cardamine rotundifolia

ClassificationDicots
FamilyBrassicaceae
Family (Traditional)Brassicaceae
GenusCardamine
Species:Cardamine rotundifolia Michx.
Common NameAmerican Bittercress
Growth Habitforb
Plant Notes**
CharacteristicsArmaments: No; Milky Sap: No; Photosynthetic: Yes; Stipules: No; Woody Herbaceous: Herbaceous; Natural Area Presence: CCNMP; Natural Area Presence: GRSM; Natural Area Presence: NRG; Duration: Perennial; General Ecology: Mudflat; General Ecology: Terrestrial; Growth Habit: forb; Moisture Requirements: Mesic-Hydric; Moisture Requirements: Hydric; Moisture Requirements: Wetland; Region of Origin: North America; Reproductive Phenology: April; Reproductive Phenology: May; Reproductive Phenology: June; Reproductive Phenology: July; Leaf Arrangement: alternate; Leaf Arrangement: basal; Leaf Complexity: compound; Leaf Complexity: simple; Leaf Dissection: 0; Leaf Dissection: 1; Leaf Fragrance: No; Leaf Persistance: Deciduous; Leaf Petiole Type: petiolate; Leaf Type: broadleaf; Leaf Venation: palmate; Leaf Venation: pinnate; Leaflet Margins: entire; Anther Type: Basifixed; Base Flower Color: White; Carpel Number/Pistil: 2; Fruit Dehiscence: Yes; Fruit Type: Capsule; Fruit Type: Silique; Fruit Wet/Dry: Dry; Hypanthium Present: No; Inflorescence Types: raceme; Ovary Position: Superior; Overall Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic; Perianth Present: Yes; Petal Fusion: No; Petal Number: 4; Pistil Complexity: Compound; Pistil Number: 1; Placentation Type: Parietal; Sexuality: monoclinous; Sporangium Arrangement: N/A
C value 7
StatusNative; AGCP (OBL), EMP (OBL) (NWPL); TN[S2S3] KY[S3S4] (State Rank); G4 (Global Rank)
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** Not applicable or data not available.

Species Distribution Map

This species has been reported in the counties highlighted in the interactive distribution map below. Click on a county to display the its name. Click the question mark icon () to view additional information about the ecoregions shown. In the map legend, there are links to toggle the visibility of the ecoregions and/or their labels. In addition, clicking on an ecoregion name will highlight that region on the map.

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  • Counties
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Ecoregions
  • Southeastern Plains
    • Blackland Prarie
  • Blue Ridge Mountains
  • Ridge and Valley
  • Cumberland Plateau
  • Cumberland Mountains
  • Allegheny Plateau
  • Interior Plateau
    • Bluegrass Region
    • Nashville Basin
    • Pennyroyal Karst Plain
    • Western Highland Rim
    • Eastern Highland Rim

Synonyms

SynonymFull Citation
Cardamine rotundifolia var. diversifolia Cardamine rotundifolia var. diversifolia

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort.

Counties included on distribution map: Bell (KY), Clay (KY), Hart (KY), Jackson (KY), Knox (KY), Laurel (KY), Leslie (KY), Letcher (KY), Madison (KY), Menifee (KY), Perry (KY), Powell (KY), Pulaski (KY), Rockcastle (KY), Rowan (KY), Whitley (KY), Wolfe (KY), Campbell (TN), Carter (TN), Claiborne (TN), Grainger (TN), Hawkins (TN), Johnson (TN), Putnam (TN), Scott (TN), Sullivan (TN), Unicoi (TN), Williamson (TN), Wilson (TN)

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: MEM, APSC, EKY, HTTU, TENN, ETSU, MTSU, KNK, UCHT, SWMT

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1959 - 2016

Accession No. (click for full details) County State Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.
Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used
N/A Menifee Kentucky 09 May 1993 Ross C. Clark
22737
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339686 Perry Kentucky 13 Jun 1979 Richard H. Hannan
2277
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339603 Jackson Kentucky 21 Apr 1977 Ross Winder
8
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339645 Laurel Kentucky 16 Jun 1990 Ronald Jones
6380
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339710 Whitley Kentucky 08 May 1979 Richard H. Hannan
1440
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339660 Letcher Kentucky 29 Apr 1979 Jeffery D. Sole
739
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31973000007216 Rowan Kentucky 20 Sep 1996 Risk, Allen
8801
KNK
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106298 Hawkins Tennessee
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
UCHT013469 Scott Tennessee
UCHT
Cardamine rotundifolia
APSC0089524 Bell Kentucky
APSC
Cardamine rotundifolia
MTSU015245 Wilson Tennessee John Douglas
MTSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
SWMT02527 Williamson Tennessee 21 Jun 1982 Rick Sullivan
SWMT
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU031099 Carter Tennessee
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU014417 Carter Tennessee
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339587 Jackson Kentucky 21 Apr 1977 Steve Merli
23
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339629 Knox Kentucky 15 May 1979 Richard H. Hannan
1679
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339637 Laurel Kentucky 17 Apr 1979 Richard H. Hannan
1225
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU008205 Carter Tennessee
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Carter Tennessee 28 Apr 2012 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Carter Tennessee 07 Apr 2012 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106296 Carter Tennessee
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106749 Whitley Kentucky
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106748 Bell Kentucky
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
APSC0102086 Hart Kentucky
APSC
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339595 Jackson Kentucky 21 Apr 1977 Phil Mastrangelo
21
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339694 Powell Kentucky 08 May 1988 J. Campbell
s.n.
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339702 Rockcastle Kentucky 03 May 1989 Neal Denton, Ralph L. Thompson, Kenneth C. Collier
48
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Unicoi Tennessee 10 Apr 2015 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Unicoi Tennessee 27 Aug 2016 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Unicoi Tennessee 27 Apr 2015 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
31973000007217 Rockcastle Kentucky 12 May 1990 Denton, Neal
1116
KNK
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106297 Grainger Tennessee
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106295 Campbell Tennessee
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
APSC0073827 Menifee Kentucky
APSC
Cardamine rotundifolia
APSC0073884 Wolfe Kentucky
APSC
Cardamine rotundifolia
APSC0091447 Bell Kentucky
APSC
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Menifee Kentucky 09 May 1993 R.C. Clark
22737
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339652 Leslie Kentucky 09 Apr 1991 David D. Taylor, Steve Phillips
15346
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Unicoi Tennessee 18 May 2012 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Carter Tennessee 05 May 2012 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Carter Tennessee 22 Apr 2012 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106293 Carter Tennessee
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU030396 Carter Tennessee
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339611 Jackson Kentucky 21 Apr 1977 Jennie Lynch
31
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106300 Scott Tennessee
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
APSC0091411 Pulaski Kentucky
APSC
Cardamine rotundifolia
HTTU028593 Putnam Tennessee
HTTU
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Carter Tennessee 03 May 2012 Adam McCullough
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU014413 Carter Tennessee
14393
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339678 Jackson Kentucky 21 Apr 1977 David Nance
49
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Carter Tennessee 05 Jul 2014 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Carter Tennessee 14 Jul 2012 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
31973000007212 Menifee Kentucky 15 Jun 1998 Risk, Allen
10,848
KNK
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106294 Claiborne Tennessee
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106301 Unicoi Tennessee
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100722014 Jackson Kentucky 24 Apr 2010 Brent Williams, Justin Stewart
15
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100339579 Clay Kentucky 22 May 1979 Richard H. Hannan
1881
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Hart Kentucky 27 Apr 1963 Edward T. Browne
6800.5
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU005954 Unicoi Tennessee 02 Jun 2012 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Carter Tennessee 05 May 2012 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU006260 Johnson Tennessee 16 May 2016 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU005716 Carter Tennessee 01 Jul 2015 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
TENN-V-0106299 Johnson Tennessee
TENN
Cardamine rotundifolia
APSC0091551 Pulaski Kentucky
APSC
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU014419 Sullivan Tennessee
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU014414 Unicoi Tennessee
12089
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
31234100337946 Madison Kentucky 28 Apr 1959 Dan Pittillo
s.n.
EKY
Cardamine rotundifolia
N/A Carter Tennessee 22 Apr 2012 Frosty Levy
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
APSC0021094 Whitley Kentucky
APSC
Cardamine rotundifolia
APSC0070262 Wolfe Kentucky
APSC
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU014416 Unicoi Tennessee
15025
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU014418 Carter Tennessee
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
ETSU014415 Unicoi Tennessee
15108
ETSU
Cardamine rotundifolia
MEM011718 Bell Kentucky 07 Jun 1975 Raymond Athey
3081
MEM
Cardamine rotundifolia
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Cardamine rotundifolia - Dwayne Estes
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Cardamine rotundifolia - Dwayne Estes
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Cardamine rotundifolia - Dwayne Estes
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