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Cardamine is a large genus of flowering plants in the mustard family, Brassicaceae, known as bittercresses and toothworts. It contains more than 200 species of annuals and perennials. Species in this genus can be found in diverse habitats worldwide, except the Antarctic. The name Cardamine is derived from the Greek kardaminē, water cress, from kardamon, pepper grass.




Description


The leaves can have different forms, from minute to medium in size. They can be simple, pinnate or bipinnate. They are basal and cauline (growing on the upper part of the stem), with narrow tips. They are rosulate (forming a rosette). The blade margins can be entire, serrate or dentate. The stem internodes lack firmness.
The radially symmetrical flowers grow in a racemose many-flowered inflorescence or in corymbs. The white, pink or purple flowers are minute to medium-sized. The petals are longer than the sepals. The fertile flowers are hermaphroditic.




Taxonomy


The genus Cardamine was first formally named in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum. As of August 2024, there are 264 accepted species in Kew's Plants of the World Online database.
The genus name Dentaria is a commonly used synonym for some species of Cardamine.




Species



Select species include:




Ecology



This plant is also used as one of the main food sources for the butterfly Pieris oleracea.




Uses


The roots of most species are edible raw.
Some species were reputed to have medicinal qualities (treatment of heart or stomach ailments).




References






Bibliography


Taxonomic Revision of Cardamine
Lihová, J.; Marhold, K. (2003). "Taxonomy and distribution of the Cardamine pratensis group (Brassicaceae) in Slovenia". Phyton (Horn). 43: 241–261.
Lihová, J.; Marhold, K.; Neuffer, B. (2000). "Taxonomy of Cardamine amara in the Iberian Peninsula". Taxon. 49 (4): 747–763. doi:10.2307/1223975. JSTOR 1223975. S2CID 85625889.
Sun, Jianqiang; Shimizu-Inatsugi, Rie; Hofhuis, Hugo; Shimizu, Kentaro; Hay, Angela; Shimizu, Kentaro K.; Sese, Jun (2020). "A recently formed triploid Cardamine insueta inherits leaf vivipary and submergence tolerance traits of parents". Front. Genet. 11: 567262. doi:10.3389/fgene.2020.567262. PMC 7573311. PMID 33133153. S2CID 222135582.




External links


Media related to Cardamine at Wikimedia Commons

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