Cardamine heptaphylla, common name pinnate coralroot is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae.

[1][2][3] The genus name Cardamine is derived from the Greek kardamon, cardamom - an unrelated plant in the ginger family, used as a pungent spice in cooking.

The specific epithet heptaphylla is composed of ancient Greek ἑπτά, hepta (seven) and φύλλον, phullon (leaf).

[4][5] This species grows mainly in mountain woods, especially in beech and spruce forests, but sometimes in plain, at an elevation up to 2,200 metres (7,200 ft) above sea level.

These deciduous, perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous, flowering plants are characterized by a glabrous, erect, unbranched stem, and by few but very large imparipinnate leaves, with 5 to 9 large opposite leaflets, ovate-lanceolate, irregularly toothed.