Common Bittercress

Cardamine flexuosa

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Botanical name
Cardamine flexuosa
Also known as
Bending Bittercress, Common Bittercress, Greater Bittercress, Wavy Bitter-Cress, Wavy Bittercress, Wood Bitter-Cress, Wavy Bitter-Cr., Wood Bittercress, Woodland Bittercress
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Cardamine
Reference
World Flora Online

How to grow Common Bittercress

We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.

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Other names for this plant

These names have all been used for Cardamine flexuosa but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.

Cardamine decurrens Cardamine drymeja Cardamine duraniensis Cardamine fallax var. glabra Cardamine flexuosa f. heterophylla Cardamine flexuosa f. macrocarpa Cardamine flexuosa f. pusilla Cardamine flexuosa f. umbrosa Cardamine flexuosa var. bracteata Cardamine flexuosa var. debilis Cardamine flexuosa var. flexuosa Cardamine flexuosa var. gracilipes Cardamine flexuosa var. haleakalensis Cardamine flexuosa var. interrupta Cardamine flexuosa var. ovatifolia Cardamine flexuosa var. petiolulata Cardamine hirsuta f. rigida Cardamine hirsuta subsp. flexuosa Cardamine hirsuta subsp. flexuosa Cardamine hirsuta subsp. sylvatica Cardamine hirsuta var. flaccida Cardamine hirsuta var. flexuosa Cardamine hirsuta var. omeiensis Cardamine hirsuta var. sylvatica Cardamine muscosa Cardamine pusilla Cardamine scutata subsp. flexuosa Cardamine setigera Cardamine sylvatica Pteroneurum decurrens

Others in Cardamine

Cardamine violacea
Cardamine × fringsii
Cardamine × helleriana
Cardamine × incisa
Cardamine × ambigua
Cardamine × digenea
Cardamine × enriquei
Cardamine × fischeriana

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