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Cardamine hirsuta

MacAndrew Bay.<br>Photographer: Mike Thorsen, Date taken: 12/07/2014, Licence: All rights reserved. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Hutt River.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 06/05/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Wanganui. Sep 2007.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Under silver beech (Lophozonia menziesii). Mount Climie, Upper Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 02/02/2013, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

bittercress

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Simplified description

Cauline leaves pinnate, glabrous or nearly so (cf. C. flexuosa, which often grows with C. hirsuta; and despite the species name ‘hirsuta’); stem axis not zig-zagged (cf. C. flexuosa).

Flower colours

White

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Cardamine

Family

Brassicaceae

Authority

Cardamine hirsuta L.

Endemic genus

Endemic family

Ecology

Year naturalised

1901

Other information

Etymology

cardamine: From the Greek name kárdamon, referring to an Indian spice

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

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