Cardamine cordifolia Calflora

Calflora, a 501c3 non-profit

Taxon Report

Cardamine cordifolia A. Gray

Heartleaf bittercress

2009 Barry Breckling

2024 Dana York

2018 David popp

2010 Barry Breckling

Cardamine cordifolia is a perennial herb that is native to California.


	Plant Range Observation Search ~24 records in California Plant Characteristics

Bloom Period

Photos on Calflora


Genus:	Cardamine
Family:	Brassicaceae
Category:	angiosperm
PLANTS group:	Dicot
Jepson eFlora section: eudicot

Wetlands: Occurs usually in wetlands, occasionally in non wetlands

Communities: Yellow Pine Forest, Red Fir Forest

Name Status:
Accepted by JEF + PLANTS + POWO

Alternate Names:


JEF	Cardamine cordifolia var. lyallii
JEF	Cardamine lyallii

Information about Cardamine cordifolia from other sources


Nursery availability from CNPLX Commercial availability unknown. Jepson eFlora USDA PLANTS Profile (CACO6) Photos on Calflora Photos on CalPhotos Google Images Photos on iNaturalist ID Tips on PlantID.net	International Plants Names Index Search efloras.org (Flora of North America) Landscape information from Calscape BONAP Distribution Map Consortium of California Herbaria 2 Search the Native American Ethnobotany Database	Add an Observation Location Suitability Planting Guide Distribution by County
photos / record / common / links null:!mu46963:!mg56869:!null:!

Suggested Citation

Calflora: Information on California plants for education, research and conservation, with data contributed by public and private institutions and individuals. [web application]. 2025. The Calflora Database [a non-profit organization]. Available: https://www.calflora.org/ (Accessed: 05/18/2025).