Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cardamine paucijuga
Common name
Annual Bittercress
Family
Brassicaceae
Where found
Moist forest and along streams, and other habitats near permanent or seasonally wet areas. Widespread.
Notes
Annual or possibly perennial herb to 0.4 m high, erect or sprawling, taprooted, sometimes also with fibrous roots. Hairless, occasionally hairy. Leaves 2-12 cm long, basal and alternating up the stems, compound, with 3-11 leaflets. Leaflets variable from kidney shaped or oval to linear, the terminal leaflet the largest and sometimes lobed. Flowers with 4 petals each 3–6 mm long, white or rarely pink. Stamens 6. Sepals sometimes with white margins. Flowers in few to many-flowered clusters. Flowers Spring to Autumn.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cardamine~paucijuga (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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