Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cardamine lilacina
Common name
Lilac Bitter-cress
Family
Brassicaceae
Where found
Damp forest, woodland, heath, herbfields, grasslands, and rocky areas. Mainly in Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT, occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Annual to perennial herb to 0.50 m high, sprawling to erect, with a taproot. Usually hairless, rarely hairy. Basal leaves in a rosette, 5-25 cm long, compound, with 3-9 leaflets. Stem leaves 0-6, alternating up the stems, smaller, to 10 cm long, compound to dissected or entire. Flowers with 4 white, pink or purple petals 4.5–12 mm long. Stamens 6. Sepals 2–3 mm long, purple with white margins. Flowers usually in many-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~lilacina (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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