Cutleaf toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
Description
Cardamine concatenata, the cutleaf toothwort, crow's toes, pepper root or purple-flowered toothwort, is a flowering plant in Brassicaceae. It owes its name to the tooth-like appearance of its rhizome It is a perennial plant woodland wildflower native to eastern North America It is considered a spring ephemeral and blooms in March, April, and/or May The vegetative parts of this plant, which can reach 20-40 cm, arise from a segmented rhizome.The leaves are on long petioles, deeply and palmately dissected into five segments with large "teeth" on the margins.The white to pinkish flowers are held above the foliage in a spike. Fruit is an elongated pod which can be up to 4 cm long.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Brassicales
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Family: Brassicaceae
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Genus: Cardamine
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