BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Cardamine (bitter-cresses)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs #webs
Species Cardamine amara L. (Large Bitter-cress)   5     2
Species Cardamine flexuosa With. (Wavy Bittercress)   11 22   4
Hybrid Cardamine flexuosa x pratensis (C. x fringsii) Wirtgen f. (a bitter-cress)       1  
Species Cardamine hirsuta L. (Hairy Bitter-cress)   4     2
Species Cardamine impatiens L. (Narrow-leaved Bitter-cress)   8 5    
Species Cardamine pratensis L. (Lady’s Smock, Cuckoo Flower) 1 22   1 5

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Privately published

Cardamine may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
BRASSICACEAE
(cabbages, cresses etc - formerly Cruciferae)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Cardamine:

(live) live is swollen by colony Albugo candida - White Blister Or White Rust Of Brassicaceae (Peronosporales: Albuginaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
is foodplant of larva Ceutorhynchus pectoralis - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
flower flower is galled by larva Dasineura cardaminis - a gall midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
leaf leaf is grazed by imago Phyllotreta diademata - a flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Phyllotreta diademata - a flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf leaf is grazed by imago Phyllotreta ochripes - a flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Phyllotreta ochripes - a flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Phyllotreta tetrastigma - a flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf leaf is grazed by imago Phyllotreta tetrastigma - a flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992

Cardamine may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
BRASSICACEAE
(cabbages, cresses etc - formerly Cruciferae)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls