| Cardamine pratensis subsp. angustifolia (Hook.) O. E. Schulz | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Cardamine pratensis var. angustifolia Hook. | ||
| Common name | cuckoo flower | ||
| Description | Glabrous; stems terete, from short rhizome; leaves thick with embedded veins; basal leaves with several stalked, rounded leaflets, soon withering, the upper pin- natisect, with linear divisions; petals white or rose, with darker veins, 2 to 3 times longer than sepals; mature siliques 3—4 cm long, with short style. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, along creeks, thickets, to at least 500 meters. C. pratensis described from Europe, subsp. angustifolia from Igloolik and other islands in the Arctic Sea. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. praténsis. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.