Rock Cress
By Lou Paun
Rock Cress (Arabis) - A large family of hill-plants, few of which are grown. A. albida (White Rock Cress) will grow in any soil, where its sheets of snowy bloom may open in early spring. The double white form is a favourite.
Watercress has become rare in its habitats throughout Europe. An easily cultivated aquatic, semiperennial aromatic herb with a distinct, typical cress like mild-spicy flavor.
Watercress
Nasturtium officinale, Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum
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WATER CRESS
Watercress is one of those leafy greens that makes you sound snooty and rich when you order a soup, salad, or sandwich. However, it is easy and quick to grown (12 to 20 days from seed), and provides vitamins and minerals.
Elusive Cress - profile
Scientific name: Irenepharsus magicus
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
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Rockcress, Mountain Rockcress
Scientific Name: Arabis alpina L.
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Family: Brassicaceae ...
Watercress
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hardy perennial European herb (Nasturtium officinale) of the family Cruciferae (mustard family), widely naturalized in North America, found in or around water.
Watercress is a dark green, leafy vegetable with a zesty pepper-like taste. It is an aquatic type plant and is related to the Nasturtium family. Watercress is grown along creeks and streambeds. Plants grow partially submerged.
Watercress has also been used as a specific in tuberculosis. Its active principles are said to be at their best when the plant is in flower.
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Lesser Swinecress is a foul smelling plant. Stems trailing or ascending, multiple from the base, radiating from a central point, from a long taproot, to 30 cm long, herbaceous, smooth, green.
Field Pennycress
Thlaspi arvense L.
Other names: Stinkweed
Family: Brassicaceae, Mustard
Genus: Thlaspi ...
Lebanon Stonecress
Use these compact, mounding, evergreen shrubs in rock gardens or as front edging along borders.
Brassicaceae / Mustard Purple Cress, Pink Spring Cress or Limestone Bittercress (Cardamine douglassii)
Plant Type: This is a herbaceous plant, it is a perennial which can reach 30cm in height (12inches). The lower stem is hairy.
Florida water cress
Nasturtium floridanum (syn. Rorippa floridana)
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Lyre-leaved rock cress is food for larva of the falcate orange-tip butterfly. The butterflies tend to visit the plants around the time of flowering.
Leaves of lyre-leaved rock cress.
- Mountain rockcress, Rockcress, Wallcress
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kar-DAM-in-ee Common Name: Bittercress Synonyms: Dentaria
The genus Cardamine is comprised of 150 species of annuals and perennials, all from cool, shady, and damp areas, and grown mostly for their 4-petaled, ...
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Watercress
A plant that is a member of the mustard family and is used as an herb and a salad green. Its leaves have a savory, spicy flavor that is suitable with many other foods.
Bittercress
In February 1987 I first wrote about this weed. At the time, like everyone else in our area, I misidentified it, writing: "Unlike about 90% of our weed species, this is native here; ...
Watercress Stream
Here's an easy way to create a false stream on the shady side of the house so you can grow watercress.
Watercress was introduced from Europe and is now quite at home (even in grocery stores) throughout the United States. Its tiny white flowers (not shown) float on stems just above the water.
Rock Cress, a native of Southern Europe, is in full bloom mainly for April & May. The flowers are fading out at some point during the first half of June.
Hoary Cress Consortium
USDA. ARS. Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory.
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Bittercress - Barbarea vulgaris, Cardamine bulbosa, Cardamine hirsuta
Hairy Bittercress - Cardamine hirsuta
Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara ...
EnglischParacress, Toothache plant, Brazil cress
EstnischHarilik nööpkakar
FranzösischCresson de Para, Spilanthe des potagers; Brèdes mafanes, Brèdes mafana (Madagaskar) ...
Lyre-leaf Rockcress
Arabis lyrata
An erect stem rising from a rosette of basal leaves with a terminal cluster of small, white or greenish-white flowers. Flowers: About 1/4" (6 mm) wide; petals 4.
Sow corn salad and land cress in mid- to late summer; cover with a cloche in autumn for higher quality leaves
Sow spring cabbage in late summer for transplanting in autumn and harvests from mid-spring.
Mountain rock cress (Arabis alpina ssp. caucasica)
Height: 15 to 30 cm
Spread: 15 to 45 cm ...
Austrian yellowcress Rorippa austriaca
autumn-olive; oleaster Elaeagnus umbellata
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baby's breath Gypsophila paniculata
Bahia grass Paspalum notatum
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Arabis caucasica [Wall Rockcress] Common Name List
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Armeria maritima [Sea Pink, Sea Thrift, Thrift] Common Name List
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Artemisia schmidtiana 'Silver Mound' [Wormwood] Common Name List ...
Seaside Centaury, Self-heal, Sessile Oak or Durmast Oak, Shaggy Soldier, Shallon, Sharp Rush, Sharp-flowered Rush, Sharp-leaved Fluellen, Sharp-leaved Pondweed, Sheathed Sedge, Sheep's Fescue, Sheep's Sorrel, Sheep's-bit Scabious, Shepherd's Cress, ...
NASTURTIUM, or Indian Cress, Tropaeolum majus, a perennial climber, native of Peru, but in cultivation treated as a hardy annual. It climbs by means of the long stalk of the peltate leaf which is sensitive to contact like a tendril.
Place the seeds evenly on the compost surface -do not sow them too densely as some species will germinate like mustard and cress and then become difficult to prick out.
The leaves are a cress and cabbage substitute[12], becoming peppery with age[172]. Leaves are usually available all year round, though they can also be dried for later use[12]. The leaves contain about 2.9% protein, 0.2% fat, 3.
The soft black seeds in the central cavity also are edible, tasting a little like watercress or nasturtium. Ripe papayas are soft and have a thin skin. In most cases the papayas available in grocery stores were picked while still hard and unripe.
Rock Cress, with its naturally prostrate growth habit, can be planted in the crevices of rock ledges to create a white cascading effect that is stunning in Spring.
Salvia guaranitica 'Argentina Skies' (Argentina Skies Anise Sage) This Charles Cresson selection of S. guaranitica is dramatically different from the normal species.
(Cruciferae) -- This member of the mustard family was imported to the US along with many relatives; watercress, horseradish, and garlic mustard among them.
Nombres relacionados: Brassicaceae (familia), Lesser swinecress (inglés), Mastuerzo de indias (castellano).
Floración: Primavera
Indicaciones, contraindicaciones: Antiescorbútico, antihemorroidal.
These included parsley, anise, pennyroyal, sorrel, watercress, liverwort, wild leeks, and lavender.
Arabis procurrens 'Variegata'
ROCK CRESS
Argentina egedii ssp egedii
PACIFIC SILVERWEED
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The flowers can be added to salads for an exotic look and taste; they have a slightly peppery taste reminiscent of Watercress.
Arabis procurrens ( Rock cress )
Aralia elata ( Albomarginata Japanese Angelica Tree )
Aralia elata ( Aureovariegata Japanese Angelica Tree ) ...
from England after England got them from Spain, first recorded in Bermuda in 1851 when 10 boxes were exported, regularly sent by ship to New York in the late 1870s and early 1880s in 10-pound crates or palmetto baskets), turnips, upland cress, ...
Brooklime health benefits (Veronica beccabunga Fam. Scrophulariaceae)
Popular names: cow cress, water pimpernel.
On a thin layer of sawdust or coco-nut fibre, that must be kept uniformly damp, mustard or cress seeds are sprinkled. Each sieve is then placed over a beaker containing water. In three or four days the seeds are germinating.
Use the trailing forms on low fences or trellises, on a gravelly or sandy slope, or in a hanging container. Many gardeners include nasturtiums in the salad garden. Edible flowers and foliage are a gourmet treat. They taste peppery like watercress.
The greatest risk in Indiana seems to be in the southwestern counties where cressleaf groundsel (Senecio glabellus) grows. Another species, prairie ragwort (Senecio plattensis), occurs in the northern half of the state.
 See also: Ginger, Pink, Mustard, Sunflower, Aster
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