# Cardamine breweri

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|name = Brewer's bittercress
|image = Cardaminebreweri.jpg
|taxon = Cardamine breweri
|authority = [S.Wats.](/source/Sereno_Watson)
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| status_system = TNC
| status_ref = <ref name="TNC status  30 May 2022">{{Cite web|date=2022-05-30 |url=   https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.144059|access-date=30 May 2022 |website=NatureServe Explorer Cardamine breweri|title = NatureServe Explorer - Cardamine breweri |publisher=NatureServe}}</ref>
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'''''Cardamine breweri''''' is a species of [cardamine](/source/cardamine) known by the common name '''Brewer's bittercress'''. It is native to western North America from [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia) to [California](/source/California) to [Colorado](/source/Colorado), where it grows in [coniferous forests](/source/temperate_coniferous_forest), particularly in wet [bog](/source/bog) [habitat](/source/habitat)s.

==Description== 
''Cardamine breweri'' is a perennial herb growing up to about half a meter in maximum height. The leaves are oval in shape and sometimes divided into a few smaller leaflets. The mustardlike [inflorescence](/source/inflorescence) is a raceme of many white flowers, each with four petals half a centimeter long. The fruit is an erect [silique](/source/silique) up to 3 centimeters long containing many small seeds.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2240,2342,2345 Jepson Manual Treatment - ''Cardamine breweri'']
*[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CABR6 USDA Plants Profile]
*[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Cardamine+breweri ''Cardamine breweri'' - Photo gallery]
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breweri
Category:Flora of the Western United States
Category:Flora of California
Category:Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Category:Natural history of the Transverse Ranges

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