932 Cardamine parviflora L.

This species has a wide lowland distribution. The species s. str. (subsp. parviflora) occurs throughout Europe and Asia and subsp. virginica (L.) O. E. Schulz (syn.: var. arenicola [Britt.] 0. E. Schulz) in N. America. The species has occasionally been introduced into waste places, for instance in Norway and northwestern N. America (Porsild and Cody 1980, p. 346). Totally the species belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 144 and map 135). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 187.