Cardamine violacea (D. Don) Wall. ex Hook. fil. & Thomson

Herbs perennial, 20-100 cm tall, shortly pilose or subglabrous. Rhizomes stout, to 1 cm in diam. Stems erect, simple, stout, glabrous. Basal leaves not seen. Middle cauline leaves sessile, strongly auriculate, sagittate, or amplexicaul at base; blade lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 3.5-20 × 0.7-3.5 cm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially puberulent or subpilose, margin ciliolate and dentate, denticulate, or entire, apex acuminate or caudate; auricles oblong or ovate, 2-10 × 2-7 mm. Racemes 5-25-flowered. Flowering pedicels spreading or reflexed; fruiting pedicels divaricate or ascending, 0.8-3 cm, glabrous, straight. Sepals oblong 5-7 × 1.5-3 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose, base of lateral pair sacctae. Petals purple, spatulate or obovate, 1-1.7 cm × 4.5-7 mm. Median filament pairs 7-9 mm, lateral pair 6-7 mm; anthers oblong, 1.5-2 mm. Ovules 10-16 per ovary. Fruit linear, 2-6 cm × 1.4-2.5 mm; gynophore 0.5-1 mm; valves smooth, glabrous; style 3-8 mm. Seeds brown, oblong, 2-3 × 1.4-1.8 mm, wingless. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Jul-Sep.

Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan).

Yunnan [Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim].

2500-3600 m

Grassy slopes, streamsides, open forests, pastures, thickets, roadside banks, sandy moist forests, forest ravines; 1800-4000 m.

Erysimum violaceum D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 202. 1825; Cardamine violacea subsp. bhutanica Grierson.

Cardamine violacea là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cải. Loài này được (D.Don) Wall. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1831.

堇色碎米荠（学名：Cardamine violacea）是十字花科碎米荠属的植物。分布在印度、尼泊尔以及中国大陆的云南等地，生长于海拔1,800米至3,460米的地区，一般生长在高山草坡、石坡、灌丛中或山坡针阔叶混淆林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。