Cardamine hirsuta L.

 
  • Family : BRASSICACEAE
    (Mustard Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : SARSON FAMILY (सरसों फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Brassicaceae
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cardamine hirsuta L.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Comments / notes : Moist areas
  • Key identification features : Glabrous herb; Flowers white; Pods racemed, erect acute or obtuse.
  • Flower, Fruit : July-December
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
    • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district, Kinnaur district, Lahaul & Spiti district, Shimla district
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Borneo, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Central European Russia, China, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Islands, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finlan
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 60
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cardamine hirsuta. Downloaded on 19 February 2025.

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