Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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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)