Cardamine trifida

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cardamine trifida, photographed by Татьяна Максимова — fig. b Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126318089

Cardamine trifida, photographed by Repina Tatyana — fig. c Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123963340

Cardamine trifida, photographed by Ochirnima Nimaev — fig. e Ochirnima Nimaev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112083904

Cardamine trifida, photographed by Юлия — fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135747497

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: The New York Botanical Garden
Accession: 04755225
Filed as: Cardamine trifida (Lam. ex Poir.) B.M.G.Jones
Det. by: not recorded on this sheet
Collected: not recorded
Origin: not recorded
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 22 botanical countries

Native distribution of Cardamine trifida, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Altay	ALT	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur	AMU
Buryatiya	BRY
Chita	CTA
Inner Mongolia	CHI
Irkutsk	IRK
Japan	JAP
Kamchatka	KAM
Kazakhstan	KAZ
Khabarovsk	KHA
Korea	KOR
Krasnoyarsk	KRA
Kuril Is.	KUR
Magadan	MAG
Manchuria	CHM
Mongolia	MON
Primorye	PRM
Sakhalin	SAK
West Siberia	WSB
Yakutiya	YAK
Central European Russia	RUC	EUROPE
East European Russia	RUE

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 468 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-26.2 °C	-25.5 °C	-15.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	19.4 °C	23.7 °C	24.5 °C
Annual rainfall	382 mm	500 mm	966 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	27 mm	37 mm	89 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 468 research-grade observations of Cardamine trifida that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Cardamine grandiflora Turcz.
Cardamine schulziana Baehni
Cardamine tenuifolia Turcz.
Cardamine tenuifolia f. communis N.Busch
Cardamine tenuifolia f. grandiflora Turcz.
Cardamine tenuifolia f. parviflora (Trautv.) O.E.Schulz
Cardamine tenuifolia var. bracteata O.E.Schulz
Cardamine tenuifolia var. dissecta O.E.Schulz
Cardamine tenuifolia var. parviflora Trautv.
Cardamine trifolia Pall.
Dentaria alaunica Golitsin
Dentaria tenuifolia Ledeb.
Dentaria trifida Lam. ex Poir.
Dentaria trifida f. grandiflora (Trautv.) Polozhij
Sphaerotorrhiza trifida (Lam. ex Poir.) A.P.Khokhr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.