Yellow Bitter Cress
Cardamine trichocarpa
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Maharashtra
- Flowering
- July-February
How to identify Yellow Bitter Cress
Identify Yellow Bitter Cress by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Hairy seed pods.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: July-February.
- In India, compare location records such as Maharashtra.
- Confirm it sits within the Brassicaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Yellow Bitter Cress.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cardamine trichocarpa
- Genus
- Cardamine
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka
- Found in India
- Maharashtra
- Flowering & fruiting
- July-February
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Brassicaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Yellow Bitter Cress itself; the rest are typical of the Brassicaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Yellow Bitter Cress
Yellow Bitter Cress (Cardamine trichocarpa) is a herb in the Brassicaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra. Flowering and fruiting run from July to February.
Brassicaceae
Mustard family
Yellow Bitter Cress belongs to the Brassicaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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