About Hairy Bittercress
Cardamine hirsuta, commonly called hairy bittercress, popping cress, common bittercress, hoary bittercress, hairy wood-cress, small bittercress, pepperweed, shotweed, or snapweed, is an annual or biennial species of plant in the family Brassicaceae, and is edible as a salad green. It is common in moist areas around the world.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cardamine hirsuta
- Genus
- Cardamine
- Family
- BRASSICACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan
- Flowering & fruiting
- November-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Botanical family
Brassicaceae
Mustard family
Hairy Bittercress belongs to the Brassicaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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