Common Bittercress

Cardamine hirsuta

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Botanical name
Cardamine hirsuta
Also known as
Bittercress, Common Bittercress, Hairy Bitter-Cress, Hairy Bittercress, Hoary 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 hirsuta but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.

Arabis heterophylla Cardamine angulata Cardamine borbonica Cardamine fagetina Cardamine hirsuta f. apetala Cardamine hirsuta f. glabra Cardamine hirsuta f. grandiflora Cardamine hirsuta f. litoralis Cardamine hirsuta f. pilosa Cardamine hirsuta f. umbrosa Cardamine hirsuta f. unicaulis Cardamine hirsuta subsp. hirsuta Cardamine hirsuta subsp. puberula Cardamine hirsuta var. apetala Cardamine hirsuta var. exigua Cardamine hirsuta var. hirsuta Cardamine hirsuta var. litoralis Cardamine hirsuta var. maxima Cardamine hirsuta var. montana Cardamine hirsuta var. petiolulata Cardamine hirsuta var. pilosa Cardamine hirsuta var. tetrandra Cardamine hirsuta var. unicaulis Cardamine humilis Cardamine intermedia Cardamine micrantha Cardamine multicaulis Cardamine parviflora Cardamine praecox Cardamine scutata var. rotundiloba Cardamine simensis Cardamine tenella Cardamine tetrandra Cardamine umbrosa Cardamine virginica Crucifera cardamine Ghinia hirsuta Ghinia sylvatica

Others in Cardamine

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

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