Bittercress at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Cardamine sp. | 20 Sep 2015 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 10 Sep 2015 | TimYiu |
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Old Canberra House Grassy Woodlands
3 comments
KenT
wrote:
11 Sep 2015
This looks like a Cardamine sp. but you will need a better photo of the leaves showing shape and hairs if present, stems looking for hairs, flowers looking for a stamen count and probably something else which I've forgotten (some of us have been through this all before with these things)
KenT
wrote:
20 Sep 2015
Hi Tim, sorry for the delay in getting back to you but I wanted to photograph one of this group myself to show what I was on about, see: http://canberranaturemap.org/Community/Sightings/Details/1946414. If you are having to key this genus out (eg see PlantNET) in the first two couplets you need to be able to look for the presence of hairs and count stamens, you can't do this with the images you posted.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.115204-35.288765
- Maps Australian National University Mount Ainslie to Black Mountain ANU Liversidge Precinct
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 9 Feb 2015 12:00 AM Recorded on
- TimYiu Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Other Wildflowers & Herbs TimYiu Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Cardamine sp.
Species information
- Cardamine sp. Scientific name
- Bittercress Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1628.07m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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