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Cardamine bulbifera
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Cardamine |
| Species: | C. bulbifera
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| Binomial name | |
| Cardamine bulbifera | |
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Cardamine bulbifera, known as coralroot bittercress or coral root,[2][3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is a perennial with upright, mostly unbranched, stems to 70 cm (28 in) tall, and leaves made up of between three and 13 leaflets. At the base of each leaf there are bulbils which can fall off and grow into new plants. The flowers have petals that are 10–15 mm (0.4–0.6 in) long collected in corymbose few-flowered racemes and are generally light purple, pink or almost white. It is found in damp places.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Cardamine bulbifera", The Plant List
- ^ RHS Gardening. "Cardamine bulbifera – coral root bittercress: herbaceous perennial". www.rhs.org.uk. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Williams, Colin (15 May 2017). "Coralroot, a rare beauty among the old graves". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Stace, Clive (2010), New Flora of the British Isles (3rd ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 400, ISBN 978-0-521-70772-5
- ^ "Cardamine bulbifera". Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
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