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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cardamine occidentalis
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) Howell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N.W. Amer.,
|place=50. 1897
|year=1897
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cardamine pratensis var. occidentalis
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=variety
|publication_title=in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=1(1,1): 158. 1895
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cardamine neglecta
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Cardamineae;Cardamine;Cardamine occidentalis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Cardamineae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cardamine]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cardamine occidentalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 466
|treatment_page=page 479
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; glabrous or hirsute. <b>Rhizomes</b> (tuberiform, fragile), ovoid or globose at base of stem, 3–10 mm diam., (fleshy). <b>Stems</b> (simple from base), erect to ascending, (not flexuous), unbranched or branched distally, 1–5 dm, glabrous or pubescent proximally. <b>Basal</b> leaves not rosulate, pinnately compound, (3 or) 5 (or 7)-foliolate, 2–10 cm, leaflets petiolulate or subsessile; petiole 0.5–6.5 cm; lateral leaflets petiolulate or subsessile, blade similar to terminal, ovate, smaller, margins entire; terminal leaflet (petiolule 0.03–0.18 cm), blade orbicular to broadly ovate or subcordate, 0.5–2 cm × 7–25 mm, base cordate to rounded, margins entire or repand, (surfaces glabrous). <b>Cauline</b> leaves 3–7, (3 or) 5 or 7-foliolate (middle ones 5 or 7-foliolate, smaller distally, becoming 3-foliolate), petiolate; petiole 0.5–3 cm, base not auriculate; lateral leaflets similar to terminal, smaller; terminal leaflet blade obovate to oblanceolate, 0.5–2.6 cm × 3–13 mm, margins shallowly toothed, entire, or repand. <b>Racemes</b> ebracteate. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate-ascending, 7–18 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals oblong, 1.7–2 × 1–1.2 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white, oblanceolate, 4–6 × 1.5–2 mm, (not clawed); filaments: median pairs 2–2.5 mm, lateral pair 1–1.5 mm; anthers ovate, 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>Fruits</b> linear, (torulose), 1.5–3.3 cm × 1.7–2.2 mm; (valves glabrous or sparsely pubescent); ovules 18–40 per ovary; style 0.5–1.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brown, ovoid, 1–1.6 × 1–1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 64.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Muddy grounds, lake margins, shallow streams, meadows
|elevation=150-1500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cardamine occidentalis
|authority=(S. Watson) Howell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cardamine neglecta
|basionyms=Cardamine pratensis var. occidentalis
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Muddy grounds, lake margins, shallow streams, meadows
|elevation=150-1500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. N.W. Amer.,
|publication year=1897
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Cardamineae
|genus=Cardamine
|species=Cardamine occidentalis
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