Taxon: Cardamine impatiens L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CT*, MA*, MN*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Cardamine impatiens var. impatiens (no accessions)
• Cardamine impatiens var. pectinata (no accessions)

Common names:

• narrow-leaf bittercress   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Spring-Schaumkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• ja-ninjin   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• lundbräsma   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide NPB State Noxweed/CT)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Gorno-Altay, Kemerovo, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk [s.], Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen [s.]
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh; Nepal; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland [s.]; Ireland; Norway [s. & c.]; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Macedonia; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain [n.]

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Mpumalanga
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario
  United States

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Connecticut Invasive Plants Council. 2009. Connecticut invasive plants list. [ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/CT/invasives/WordInvasivesListCommonNameW-Authors4PDF.pdf].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. [mentions].
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• National Plant Board. 2008–. National Plant Board federal and state quarantine summaries.
• Press, J. R. et al. 2000–. Annotated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rollins, R. C. 1993. The Cruciferae of continental North America.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cardamine impatiens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cardamine impatiens.

Synonyms:

• Cardamine pectinata Pall. ex DC. [≡ Cardamine impatiens var. pectinata]
  

Check other web resources for Cardamine impatiens L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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