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Cardamine bellidifolia
Alpine bittercress is a small, low-growing perennial wildflower of cold northern and mountain habitats, with a rosette of leaves and tiny white flowers. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, so care is mainly about matching cool, moist, open conditions.
Cardamine bellidifolia is a species of perennial rhizomatous forb known by the common name alpine bittercress. This species is a circumboreal alpine plant endemic to North America, Europe, and Asia.
The alpine bittercress can be found throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In the United States, populations have been located in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Maine. In Canada, populations have been found in the provinces of Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alberta, and British Columbia. In mainland Europe, alpine bittercress had been found in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland. Additionally, alpine bittercress is native to Greenland, Iceland, and Russia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cardamine bellidifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
