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Cardamine amara (Large Bittercress)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cardamine amara, known as large bitter-cress, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is a perennial with upright, mostly unbranched, stems to 70 cm (28 in) tall, and leaves made up of between three and 13 leaflets. The flowers have petals that are 8–14 mm (0.3–0.6 in) long and are generally white, although sometimes pink or purple. It is found in damp places.
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Infraspecies

Cardamine amara amara
Cardamine amara austriaca
Cardamine amara balcanica
Cardamine amara olotensis
Cardamine amara opicii
Cardamine amara opizii
Cardamine amara pyrenaea

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [1]  White
Height [2]  20 inches (.5 m)
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [4]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Wet

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Eupithecia indigata (Ochreous Pug Moth)[6]
Phaonia perdita[6]
Rhingia campestris[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hyaloperonospora parasitica[7]
Ramularia cardamines[7]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0