Cardamine bulbosa (Schreb.) B.S.P. BULBOUS SPRING CRESS.
Ontario, Niagara Park System (as Cardamine rhomboidea), Cameron
(1895).
Ontario: Queen Victoria
Park, Cameron, 1891 (NFO); Niagara Glen, Milloy, May 11, 1978 (NFO).
Cardamine douglassii
(Torr.) Britt. PURPLE SPRING CRESS,
DOUGLAS BITTERCRESS. (As C. rhomboidea var. purpurea),
"Goat Island and elsewhere. The typical form, probably, may be found in
the low ground near Clifton, Ontario," Day (1888). Ontario, Niagara Park
System (as C. rhomboidea var. purpurea), Cameron (1895).
(As C. rhomboidea var. purpurea) Goat Island,
"notable for their abundance and beauty," Day (1901). Ontario:
Niagara Glen, damp soil, Miller (59), April 23, 1952, Heimburger (1955).
"Common - a familiar component of our spring woodland flora ...
abundant," Zenkert (1934). "... extremely common in the Glen,"
Hamilton (1943). ). "[Niagara] Glen," sight record,
Yaki (1970).
New York: [USA?] Niagara
Falls. May, 1887 (BUF); North of Whirlpool State Park, base of gorge of the
Niagara River. Small population near Rock of Ages area. White with purple ends:
approaching forma albidula Farw. P.M.Eckel with Lisa Aug 8705222 April
30, l987(BUF); mid-slope,
Niagara gorge, Steps leading down to the Niagara River, in its gorge, dolomite
talus, heavily wooded dense Lonicera tatarica. Small population by
steps. Near forma albidula Farw. white-purple. P.M.Eckel c.
Tim Johnson 8705229 May 6, l987(BUF).
Ontario:
Niagara Glen, Powers, April, 1977 (NFO); Niagara Glen, rather
abundant amid dolomite rocks in rich bottomlands, in the old riverbed. With Allium
tricoccum, Hepatica acutiloba.
P. M. Eckel 731185 April 11, l985(BUF); Sheltered woods, Whirlpool Ravine, with Dentaria
laciniata, Trillium erectum, T.grandiflorum, Caulophyllum thalictroides, Anemonella
thalictroides. P. M. Eckel w. R. Zander 909303 May 4, 1990 (BUF).
Range: sOnt. Status: Rare in Canada, Argus
& White (1977).
[Cardamine hirsuta L.]
BITTER CRESS. "Goat Island," Day (1888). Ontario, Niagara Park
System, Cameron (1895).
New York: Niagara Falls, Jennie
H. Hardy, May, 1898 (BUF).
Ontario: Queen Victoria
Park, Cameron, [ca.1890] (NFO).
This species has
been excluded from the flora by Zander and Pierce (1979). It is a rare
introduction in New York State (Mitchell 1986). It is reported as an element of
the Ontario flora by Morton and Venn (1990).
Cardamine pensylvanica Muhl.
CUCKOO-FLOWER, PENNSYLVANIA BITTER-CRESS. . "Dufferin Islands," sight record, Yaki
(1970).
New York: Second of the Three Sisters
Islands, east end, P. M. Eckel, July 7,
1988 (BUF); Buckhorn Island, southern park boundary; rather frequent along wet
marsh edge with Carex aquatilis, C. lacustris, Eckel, May 20, 1999
(BUF); marsh, with Angelica atropurpurea, Rorippa palustris var. hispida,
Eckel, June 14, 1998 (BUF).
Ontario:
Smeaton's Cove, rim of Gorge, Eckel 12285 (BUF); Niagara-on-the-Lake N of
Queenston on Niagara Pkwy. Wooded tract on the shore of the Niagara River,
Natural Regeneration Area. Margins of wood, in lawn areas. P.M.Eckel 8705274
May 6, l986 (BUF); Dufferin
Islands on the Niagara River. Throughout wet areas. Note the exceptionally late
flowering. P.M.Eckel & Marguerite Eckel 871230 Oct. 9, 1987 (BUF).