Nasturtium × sterile
Common Watercress
Nasturtium officinale
R.Br. Species
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- Botanical name
- Nasturtium officinale
- Also known as
- Common Watercress, Southern Watercress, True Watercress, Water-Cress, Watercress
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Nasturtium
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Common Watercress
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 Nasturtium officinale but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Arabis nasturtium
Baeumerta nasturtium
Baeumerta nasturtium-aquaticum
Cardamine aquatica
Cardamine fontana
Cardamine nasturtium
Cardamine nasturtium-aquaticum
Cardaminum nasturtium
Crucifera fontana
Dictyosperma olgae
Nasturtium alexandrinum
Nasturtium aquaticum
Nasturtium flexuosum
Nasturtium fontanum
Nasturtium fontanum var. longisiliquum
Nasturtium nasturtium-aquaticum
Nasturtium officinale subsp. rotundifolium
Nasturtium officinale var. officinale
Nasturtium parvifolium
Nasturtium siifolium
Nasturtium siifolium
Pirea olgae
Radicula nasturtium
Radicula nasturtium
Radicula nasturtium-aquaticum
Radicula officinalis
Rorippa nasturtium
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum var. longisiliqua
Rorippa officinalis
Sisymbrium amarum
Sisymbrium fluviatile
Sisymbrium nasturtium
Sisymbrium nasturtium-aquaticum
Others in Nasturtium
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