Cardamine impatiens

Cardamine impatiens

Ssp impatiens: Sultan kodimotu; Ssp pectinata: Taraklı kodimotu

Annual herb. Leaves pinnate, with up to 8 pairs of acutely serrate leaflets. Petioles with small amplexicaul auricles at the base. Petals up to 5 mm, white. Siliquae spreading or strict, up to 1mm in diameter, somewhat torulose, without thickened placentae. Two varieties may be recognised:

1. Siliquae up to 0·8 mm in diameter, spreading, often subsecund; plant branched from the base; leaflets ovate var. pectinata

1. Siliquae up to 1 mm in diameter, ± strict, not subsecund; stems unbranched in the lower part; leaflets narrowly elliptic var. impatiens