Cardamine diphylla

Cardamine diphylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Cardamine
Species:	C. diphylla
Binomial name
Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W. Wood, 1870

Cardamine diphylla (Broadleaf toothwort, Crinkle root, Crinkle-root, Crinkleroot, Pepper root, Twin-leaved Toothwort, Twoleaf toothwort, Toothwort; syn. Dentaria diphylla Michx., Dentaria incisa Small) is a plant is native to North America.

C. diphylla is a spring woodland plant that is found in most of eastern North America.

Distribution

Its habitat ranges from Georgia north to Ontario and from the Atlantic to Wisconsin. It is found in moist woodlands usually in edge habitats and blooms from April to June. A member of the mustard family, it is typified by a four petal flower which blooms in a cluster on a single stalk above a single pair of toothed stem leaves each divided into three broad leaflets. After flowering, narrow seedpods appear just below the flower cluster. It grows approximately 30 cm (12 in) tall.

Butterfly habitat

The West Virginia White Butterfly (Pieris virginiensis) lays its eggs on this plant as well as C. laciniata. The larvae also feed on this plant.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ "Butterflies and Moths of North America". http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1397. Retrieved 2007-05-13. 

References

• Wood, Alphonso (1870) New American Botanist and Florist, revised and edited by Oliver R Willis. American Book Company Publishers, 1889.

External links

• USDA Plants Profile: Cardamine diphylla
• Evergreen NPDB, Toothwort

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