Cardamine violacea
Pennsylvania Bittercress
Cardamine pensylvanica
Muhl. ex Willd. Species
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- Botanical name
- Cardamine pensylvanica
- Also known as
- Pennsylvania Bittercress, Quaker Bittercress
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Cardamine
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Pennsylvania 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 pensylvanica but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Cardamine breweri var. oregana
Cardamine flexuosa f. grandiflora
Cardamine flexuosa subsp. pensylvanica
Cardamine flexuosa var. gracilis
Cardamine hirsuta f. pensylvanica
Cardamine hirsuta var. acuminata
Cardamine hirsuta var. pensylvanica
Cardamine multifolia
Cardamine oregana
Cardamine pensylvanica var. brittoniana
Cardamine pensylvanica var. pensylvanica
Cardamine reflexa
Dracamine pennsylvanica
Others in Cardamine
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