Brassicaceae
Milkmaids
Cardamine californica
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Cardamine
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Common names
By language (4)
- Arabic
- حرف كاليفورني
- arz
- حرف كاليفورنى
- English
- Milkmaids
- Japanese
- ミルクメイド
Synonyms
- Cardamine californica f. grandiflora O.E.Schulz
- Cardamine californica f. microphylla O.E.Schulz
- Cardamine californica f. pygmaea O.E.Schulz
- Cardamine californica subsp. cuneata (Greene) O.E.Schulz
- Cardamine californica var. brevistyla O.E.Schulz
- Cardamine californica var. californica Greene
- Cardamine californica var. cardiophylla (Greene) Rollins
- Cardamine californica var. cuneata (Greene) Rollins
- Cardamine californica var. fecunda O.E.Schulz
- Cardamine californica var. integrifolia (Torr. & A.Gray) Rollins
- Cardamine californica var. pubescens O.E.Schulz
- Cardamine californica var. robinsoniana O.E.Schulz
- Cardamine californica var. sinuata (Greene) O.E.Schulz
- Cardamine cardiophylla Greene
- Cardamine cuneata Greene
- Cardamine integrifolia (Nutt.) Greene
- Cardamine integrifolia var. sinuata (Greene) C.L.Hitchc.
- Cardamine pachystigma var. dissectifolia (Detling) Rollins
- Cardamine paucisecta Benth.
- Cardamine sinuata Greene
- Dentaria californica Nutt.
- Dentaria californica var. cardiophylla (Greene) Detling
- Dentaria californica var. cuneata (Greene) Detling
- Dentaria californica var. integrifolia (Torr. & A.Gray) Detling
- Dentaria californica var. sinuata (Greene) Detling
- Dentaria cardiophylla B.L.Rob.
- Dentaria cuneata (Greene) Greene
- Dentaria integrifolia Nutt.
- Dentaria integrifolia var. californica (Nutt.) Jeps.
- Dentaria integrifolia var. cardiophylla (Greene) Jeps.
- Dentaria integrifolia var. cuneata (Greene) J.T.Howell
- Dentaria integrifolia var. tracyi Jeps.
- Dentaria pachystigma var. dissectifolia Detling
- Dentaria sinuata (Greene) Greene
Flowers
- In flower
- January to April (from 3,909 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Ingo Renner, CC0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Rachel Whitt, CC0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Irene, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Elf assumed, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Scott Loarie, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Joe Decruyenaere, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jim Riley, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Joe Decruyenaere, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Cristhian Mace, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Franco Folini from San Francisco, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.