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Cutleaf toothwort's flowers are ~1/2" across when fully open; the flowers arise from a slender pedicel as long as the flower, 4 green or purple bluntly-pointed sepals <1/3 the length of the petals, four lavender-white petals, six stamens with yellow anthers, and a single pistil with a flat, discoid stigma.

Cardamine

Cardamine concatenata

cutleaf toothwort [Blooms: Apr-May]

Hairy bittercress flower stalks with stem leaves. Here the three flowers bear seedpods (siliques - narrow cylinders) that elongate directly out of fertilized flowers (which continue bear petals).

Cardamine

Cardamine hirsuta

hairy bitter-cress [Blooms: April]

Pennsylvania bittercress flowers are 1/8" across with 4 light green, oblong sepals that cup the corolla, 4 white petals, 6 cream-colored stamens, and a single robust pistil with a flat, disc-shaped stigma. Fruits are erect, elongate (up to 1.25" long and 1 mm wide), flat-ended cylinders (siliques) containing a single row of seeds that emerge from the center of a fertilized flower while the petals persist.

Cardamine

Cardamine pensylvanica

Pennsylvania bitter-cress [Blooms: April]