Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cardamine papillata
Common name
Forest bitter-cress
Family
Brassicaceae
Where found
Hilly to mountainous forested areas. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Small annual or perennial herb to 0.25 m high. Stems hairless or covered with minute warts. Basal leaves 2-7 cm long, simple, or compound with 3-5 leaflets, forming a persistent rosette. Lateral leaflets more or less round, terminal leaflet oval to cordate. Stem leaves, 0-3, alternating up the stems, 0.5–6 cm long, variable in shape, upper leaves much reduced, margins sometimes warty. Flowers with 4 petals each 3–5 mm long, white, pink, or white inside, pink outside. 6 stamens. Flowers usually in few-flowered clusters. Flowers Spring-Autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cardamine~papillata (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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