Cardamine altigena
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Description
Perennial, slender herb with 20-50 cm long stems, ascending to largely prostrate and running with rooting nodes from which more stems may arise.
Leaves glabrous or sparsely ciliate, imparipinnate with 1-3 pairs of lateral leaflets (rarely leaflets lacking);
Sepals green to reddish white with hyaline margins, oblong, 1.8-2.7 mm long.
Petals white, spathulate, obtuse, 3.5-6 mm long, ± ⅓ as broad.
Stamens 6, tetradynamous, with subulate filaments;
Ovary cylindrical with indistinct style and flat stigma.
Seeds red-brown, oblong in outline, 1.4-1.7 by c. 1.1 mm, smooth.