Cardamine acris Griseb.

Taxonomy: Fam. Brassicaceae// Genus:  Cardamine// Species: Cardamine acris Griseb.

Lifeform: Perrenial; hemicryptophyte according to the Raunkiær system.

Determined according to the botanical keys provided by Micevski (1995) and Jones in Tutin et al. (1964). In Flora Europaea (Jones in Tutin et al., 1964) this taxon is accepted at the subspecies level – Cardamine raphanifolia subsp. acris (Griseb.) O. E. Schulz. In The Euro+Med PlantBase (Marhold, 2011+) it is accepted at the species level.

Distribution: Native to Italy and Balkan Peninsula according to the Plants of the World Online portal; Balkan Peninsula to Turkey according to The Euro+Med PlantBase (Marhold, 2011+).

Habitat: Wet habitats – riverbanks, mountain streams, wet grasslands, sphagnum bogs, from c. 800 m up to the subalpine belt.

Flowering period: Late spring – early summer: MAY, JUN.

References:

Cardamine acris Griseb. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:280119-1 [Accessed 23.05.2022].

Cardamine acris. Marhold, K. (2011+): Brassicaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity Published on the Internet https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/a48112d9-5524-4b1b-8bb1-9c3ec1b68fa4 [Accessed 23.05.2022].

Cardamine L. Jones, B.M.G. in Tutin, T.G., Heywood, V.H., Burges, N.A., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M., & Webb, D.A. (1964). Flora Europaea. Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 285 – 289.

Cardamine L. Micevski, K. (1995). The Flora of the Republic of Macedonia Vol. I, Book 3. Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, pp. 620 – 630.

Last update: 09.12.2023.