Cardamine maxima was first described as Dentaria maxima by the English botanist Thomas Nuttall in 1818.[4][5] The American botanist Alphonso Wood placed Dentaria maximaNutt. in genus Cardamine in 1870.[2][6] The name Cardamine maxima(Nutt.) Alph.Wood is widely used today.[1][3][7][8][9][10]
Cardamine maxima is native to eastern North America. Its range extends north to New Brunswick and Québec, south to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and west to Ontario and Wisconsin.[11] It is known to occur in the following provinces and states:[3][13]
Canada: New Brunswick, Ontario, Québec
United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wisconsin
In the United States, its distribution is centered in New York and western New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont).[14]
Conservation
The global conservation status of Cardamine maxima is secure (G5).[1] However, outside of New York (its center of distribution) it is uncommon (S3) at best.
^"Cardamine maxima". State-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
^"Cardamine maxima". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
Bibliography
Gilman, Arthur V. (2015). New Flora of Vermont. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden, Volume 110. Bronx, New York, USA: The New York Botanical Garden Press. ISBN978-0-89327-516-7.
Weakley, Alan S.; Southeastern Flora Team (2022). "Flora of the southeastern United States". University of North Carolina Herbarium, North Carolina Botanical Garden.
Wood, Alphonso (1889) [First edition 1870]. Willis, Oliver R. (ed.). The New American Botanist and Florist (Revised 8th ed.). New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes & Company. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
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