Cardamine amara L.

Large Bitter-cress

Minimum height	10
Maximal height	60
Life form	He
SBT (Social Behaviour Type)	G
Ujvárosi's life form system	NA
Modified Ellenberg - Müller-Dombois life form (main category)	H
Modified Ellenberg - Müller-Dombois life form (sub-category)	NA

Chromosome number	16, 32
Ploidy level	NA

Phytosociological categorization (Soó)	2411
Phytosociological categorization (Borhidi)	1.6.1
Nativeness	native species
Residence time
Introduction mode
Invasion status
Area type	EUA
Conservation status	P
Conservation value (HUF)	5000
Year of protection	2012
IUCN Red List category	NE
Hungarian Red List category
Conservation value category	K

Ellenberg indicator values
EIV L	7
EIV T	x
EIV K	4
EIV F	9
EIV R	6
EIV N	4
EIV S	0
Zólyomi's ecological indicator values
TZ-scale	5a
WZ-scale	8
RZ-scale	0
Soó's ecological indicator values
TS-scale	2
FS- scale	4
RS- scale	3
NS-scale	2-3
Borhidi's ecological indicator values
TB-scale	5
WB-scale	9
RB-scale	6
NB-scale	4
LB-scale	7
CB-scale	4
SB-scale	0

Leaf traits
Leaf Area (Lhotsky et al. 2016)	NA
Leaf Area (E-Vojtkó et al. 2020)	1286.860
Leaf Area (Gyalus et al. 2022)	NA
Leaf Area (McIntosh-Buday et al. 2022)	NA
LDMC (Lhotsky et al. 2016)	NA
LDMC (E-Vojtkó et al. 2020)	148.236
LDMC (Gyalus et al. 2022)	NA
LDMC (McIntosh-Buday et al. 2022)	NA
SLA (Lhotsky et al. 2016)	NA
SLA (E-Vojtkó et al. 2020)	36.222
SLA (Gyalus et al. 2022)	NA
SLA (McIntosh-Buday et al. 2022)	NA
Leaf fresh mass (E-Vojtkó et al. 2020)	0.258
Leaf fresh mass (McIntosh-Buday et al. 2022)	NA
Leaf dry mass (E-Vojtkó et al. 2020)	37.960
Leaf dry mass (McIntosh-Buday et al. 2022)	NA

Distribution in Hungary

Distribution maps presented here are only for reference purposes, for more details see the Vascular plants of Hungary online database.

Last update: 3 February 2022.