{{Short description|Species of flowering plant in the cabbage family}} {{Speciesbox |name= Large bitter-cress |taxon = Cardamine amara |image = Cardamine amara IP0305015.jpg |authority = L.<ref name=TPL_kew-2699395/> |synonyms = {{Specieslist |Cardamine borealis|Laest. ex Nyman |Cardamine grandis|Schur |Cardamine libertiana|Lej. |Cardamine macrophylla|Schur |Cardamine melananthera|Steud. |Cardamine melanthera|Stokes |Cardamine nasturtiana|Thuill. |Cardamine nasturtium|Wallr. |Cardamine triphylla|Pall. |Cardamine umbrosa|Lej. |Cardamine wiedmanniana|Boiss. |Crucifera amara|E.H.L.Krause |Ghinia amara|Bubani }} |synonyms_ref = <ref name=TPL_kew-2699395/> }}
'''''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 {{cvt|70|cm}} tall, and leaves made up of between three and 13 leaflets. The flowers have petals that are {{cvt|8|–|14|mm|1}} long and are generally white, although sometimes pink or purple. It is found in damp places.<ref name=Stac10/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Stac10>{{Citation |last=Stace |first=Clive |authorlink = Clive Stace |year=2010 |title=New Flora of the British Isles |edition=3rd |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-70772-5 |page=400}}</ref>
<ref name=TPL_kew-2699395>{{citation |title=''Cardamine amara'' |work=The Plant List |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2699395 |access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref> }}
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amara Category:Plants described in 1753 Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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