Cardamine bulbifera

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae}}

{{Other uses| coralroot}}

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|name= Coralroot

|taxon = Cardamine bulbifera

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|authority = (L.) Crantz, 1769

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|Crucifera bulbifera|E.H.L.Krause

|Dentaria bulbifera|L.

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Cardamine bulbifera, known as coralroot bittercress or coral root,{{cite web |author1=((RHS Gardening)) |title=Cardamine bulbifera – coral root bittercress: herbaceous perennial |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/3049/cardamine-bulbifera/details |website=www.rhs.org.uk |publisher=Royal Horticultural Society |access-date=7 March 2022 |language=en-gb}}{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Colin |title=Coralroot, a rare beauty among the old graves |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/15/coralroot-rare-beauty-graves-hampshire-country-diary |access-date=7 March 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=15 May 2017 |language=en}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is a perennial with upright, mostly unbranched, stems to {{cvt|70|cm}} tall, and leaves made up of between three and 13 leaflets. The flowers have petals that are {{cvt|10|–|15|mm|1}} long collected in corymbose few-flowered racemes and are generally light purple, pink or almost white. It is found in damp places.{{cite web |title=Cardamine bulbifera |url=https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/plant/cardamine-bulbifera |website=Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora |access-date=3 May 2021}}

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{{Citation |last=Stace |first=Clive |author-link = Clive Stace |year=2010 |title=New Flora of the British Isles |edition=3rd |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-70772-5 |page=400}}

{{citation |title=Cardamine bulbifera |work=The Plant List |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2699536}}

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bulbifera

Category:Plants described in 1769

Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

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