Jepson Flora Project: Jepson Interchange for California Floristics    
Cardamine flexuosa With.
BRASSICACEAE
Initial Editorial Analysis 12 Nov 2014
Source of Report for California  
a 1997 Madrono, as cited in Kartesz & Meacham
b Rosatti SMASCH notes: Not treated in The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]
c Preston e-mail of 5 Jul 2000, "naturalized in CA. Ruderal. SCo (San Diego Co.); native to Eur. ; Vincent, M. A. 1997. Noteworthy collections: California. Madroño 44:305-306"
d Hrusa et al., ms later published in Madrono 49(2)61-98. 2002: DISTRIBUTION: SCo.; STATUS: established.; NOTES: most common as a greenhouse/nursery weed.
e Simpson, M. G., and J. P. Rebman, 1996. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of San Diego County. 3rd edition. SDSU Herbarium Press, San Diego, CA
f Hrusa et al., Madrono 49(2)61-98. 2002: DIST: CCo, SCo: Hrusa et al. Current Status: Naturalized outside of wildlands: DOC: San Diego Co.: Vincent, M.A. (1997, pp. 305-306); San Francisco Co.: In plantings nr. Fisherman's Wharf. April 8, 1998, M.A. Vincent and E.H. Fried 8186 (DAV): NOTES: Most common as a greenhouse/nursery weed.
Initial Editorial Comments one record in SMASCH, UC1616622; not indicated for California by Rollins in The Cruciferae of Continental North America, Reed C. Rollins; possibly not naturalized, as suggested by Source d; naturalized in CA, not listed in The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1], according to Simpson & Rebman, 1996; according to Source f, in California naturalized outside of wildlands, although occurring most commonly as a greenhouse and nursery weed 12 Feb 2003)
Correspondence and Comments Subsequent to Initial Analysis
Correspondence 1 Treatment and author notes submitted for The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] see Comment 1
Editorial Comments 1 Correspondence 1 indicates, in a note under the genus, that for The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] Cardamine flexuosa With. is to be treated as "a waif" in gardens, nurseries.
Correspondence 2 10 Nov 2014 e-mail (and pers. comm.) from Barbara Ertter see Comment 2
Editorial Comments 2 Correspondence 2 indicates that Cardamine flexuosa With. is "uncommon", "scattered", and yet naturalized, according to Ertter (pers. comm.), in a weedy area on Sunset Trail, east of "meadow area" in Joaquin Miller Park in the Oakland Hills (it is also common just outside VLSB, the building in which UC/JEPS is housed, on the Berkeley campus).
Editorial Summary and Current Status
Editorial Summary probable addition, probably naturalized in CA
Current Status JFP-2, accepted name for taxon naturalized in CA_p
Current Status Authority Jepson Flora Project
Current Status Date 12 Nov 2014
List of names for this Current Status category
List of ICPN names in Cardamine
List of names from ICPN, Hrusa's Crosswalk, and Jepson Flora in Cardamine

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