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Spring-Cress

Cardamine rhomboidea. Mustard Family.

Rootstock.--Slender; bearing small tubers. Stem.--From a tuberous base; upright; slender. Root-leaves.--Round and often heart-shaped. Stem-leaves.--The lower rounded, the upper almost lance-shaped. Flowers.--White; large; clustered. Calyx.--Of four early-falling sepals. Corolla.--Of four petals. Stamens.--Six; two shorter than the others. Pistil.--One. Pod.--Flat; lance-shaped; pointed with a slender style tipped with a conspicuous stigma; smaller than that of the crinkle-root. The spring-cress grows abundantly in the wet meadows and about the borders of springs. Its large white flowers appear as early as April, lasting until June.