Cardamine penzesii

Piçik

Perennial herb, 25–52 cm tall. Rhizome short, usually with several globular tubers. Stem erect, usually branched at base and above, only exceptionally simple, glabrous. Rosette leaves usually glabrous, the youngest seldom with appressed hairs, pinnate to pinnatisect, with 7–15 shortly petiolulate leaflets or segments; lateral leaflets or segments broadly elliptic to subrotundate, usually crenate, cuneate at base; terminal leaflet, slightly to much larger than lateral ones, usually subrotundate, crenate, cuneate or truncate at base. Cauline leaves 6–10, glabrous, pinnatisect , lower cauline leaves with 7–11 segments or leaflets, the number of segments diminishing gradually up the stem; lateral segments or leaflets oblanceolate to broadly elliptic, entire or crenate, slightly ascending; terminal segment or leaflet usually obovate and crenate, cuneate at base. Rachis of leaves arising from adventitious buds on rosette leaves, in the axils of cauline leaves, and in inflorescences, with appressed hairs. Inflorescence racemose with 1–8 lateral inflorescences; sepals 3.5–4.5 mm long, with a membranous margin, petals white, only very exceptionally tinged at the tip to pale reddish-violet, 10.2–13.4 × 5.6–8.3 mm; stamens 6, anthers yellow before anthesis, filaments of longer stamens 4.9–6.2 mm long, those of shorter stamens 2.3–4.2 mm, anthers of the longer stamens in open flowers situated above the stigma level and oriented outside, anthers of the shorter stamens situated under stigma level and oriented inside the flower; short stamens have nectar ring at the base, pairs of longer stamens have small conical nectar gland at the base; stigma conspicuous, enlarged. Pedicels patent or erect-patent, siliquae divergent from axis at the same angle as pedicels or erect. Chromosome number 2n = 2x = 16.

Bulgaria