Habit: Cardamine flexuosa grows as a glabrous to densely hirsute, erect to decumbent, biennial to perennial herb to 75 cm in height when in flower/fruit, usually smaller. The bipinnate, alternate leaves sometimes in a basal rosette, to 10 cm in length. Terminal leaflet ovate to 2 cm long, 2-5 lobed, round to reniform. Lateral leaflets ovate to elliptic, 2-5 lobed, and to 1 cm in width.
The complete, perfect, actinomorphic flowers are in terminal and axillary racemes up to 50 centimeters in length. The calyx has 4 unfused, green sepals. The corolla has 4 unfused, white to purple petals. There are 6 stamens. The superior ovary with 2 locules separated by an elongate replum. The fruit is an elongate, oval, many seeded silique.
Habitat: Cardamine flexuosa grows in moist, sandy Human Altered environments (fields, yards, disturbed areas, nurseries).
Distribution: Cardamine flexuosa is NOT native to the Bahamian Archipelago. It is native to Europe, north Africa, and eastern Asia but now occurs in the northern Bahamian island groupings as well as North and Central America.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic Usage: Cardamine flexuosa is not known to be used medicinally in the Bahamas.