Family |
Brassicaceae
Cardamine uliginosa
M.Bieb.
Cardamine uliginosa Bieb.
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 2, Pl. XLVIII nº 4; 1983)
Life-form & habit: Stoloniferous perennial with hollow, erect stems, 30–100 cm tall.
Leaves: Pinnate with 5–7 pairs of subdentate leaflets; lower leaflets ovate or suborbicular, upper ones lanceolate-linear.
Inflorescence & flowers: Long-pedicellate flowers (5–6 mm at anthesis, up to 10 mm after). Sepals pale, 3–4 mm long. Petals white or, more rarely, pale pink, 6–7 mm long.
Fruit: Silique 3 cm long × 1 mm wide, erect, ending in a short beak.
Phenology: Flowers from April to May.
Habitat & elevation: Water margins on non-calcareous soils in high elevation areas.
Lebanese distribution: Mm. Col de Zahlé and ‘Aïn Saoua‘ir, Jisr-el-Hajar, Khan Sannine, Neba‘ el-‘Assal, Hasroun, Les Cèdres; Ve. ‘Aïnata; Me. ‘Aïn el-Qarn.
Native range: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkey. (KEW)
Introduced into: Türkey-in-Europe. (KEW)