Cardamine hyperborea O. E. Schulz
 
FamilyCruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae
SynonymsCardamine digitata Richards., Cardamine richardsonii Hult.
DescriptionGlabrous; basal leaves in row from slender, horizontal rhizome, which breaks off easily and is often missing in herbarium specimens; basal leaves with 2-3 pairs of linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, blunt or somewhat acute leaflets, often with an extra unpaired leaflet at base; apical leaflet similar to lateral; stem leaves irregu- larly lobed, with linear, acute leaflets; petals 5-8 mm long, white or pinkish, twice as long as sepals; siliques ascending, with style about 2 mm long.
EcologyWet slopes in the mountains, to at least 1,100 meters, and on tundra. Described from Mackenzie district, Barren Grounds.
Hultén's Flora About

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.