Cardamine nuttallii

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'''''Cardamine nuttallii''''' is a species of cardamine known by the common name '''Nuttall's toothwort'''. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows in moist mountain habitats.

==Description== ''Cardamine nuttallii'' is a perennial herb growing from a small, white rhizome. It produces a thin, unbranching stem under 20 centimeters tall. The leaves are smooth or lobed along the edges and sometimes divided into a few smaller leaflets. The inflorescence bears generally more than one pale purple, pink, or occasionally white flowers with petals each over a centimeter long. The fruit is a silique up to 4 centimeters long.

==Varieties== There are four varieties of this plant. The rare ''Cardamine nuttallii'' var. ''gemmata'' is endemic to the ''Sequoia sempervirens'' redwood forests of northern California and southern Oregon.

==External links== {{Commons-inline}} *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2240,2342,2356 Jepson Manual Treatment - ''Cardamine nuttallii''] *[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CANU17 ''Cardamine nuttallii'' - USDA Plants Profile] *[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Cardamine+nuttallii+var.+nuttallii Photo gallery: ''Cardamine nuttallii'' var. ''nuttallii''] {{Taxonbar|from=Q4117437}}

nuttallii Category:Flora of the West Coast of the United States Category:Flora of British Columbia Category:Flora of California Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status