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 - Gardening and Horticultural Notes
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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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Uses of Watercress:
The peppery taste of Watercress livens up salads. They are also used as a garnish.
Watercress is rich in Vitamin A and C, and a variety of nutrients.
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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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.
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.
watercress Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum
watercress; one-row yellowcress; leko Rorippa microphylla
water-spinach Ipomoea aquatica
waxy-leaf privet Ligustrum quihoui
wayfaring-tree Viburnum lantana
weeping lovegrass Eragrostis curvula ...
The flavor of Cuckoo flower is hot and peppery, reminiscent of watercress or horseradish --as that of all Cardamine species.
Cabbage, Warty Cabbage, Water Chickweed, Water Dock, Water Figwort, Water Forget-me-not, Water Germander, Water Lobelia, Water Mint, Water Purslane, Water Sedge, Water Soldier, Water Speedwell, Water Tillaea, Water Violet, Water-pepper, Watercress, ...
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.
Watercress (Rorippa nasturtium-aquatica)
Wattleseed (from about 120 spp. of Australian Acacia)
White mustard (Sinapis alba)
Wild betel (Piper sarmentosum) (Southeast Asia)
Wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum)
Willow herb (Epilobium parviflorum) ...
It should not be confused with the Watercresses of the genus Nasturtium, of the Mustard family. This genus, native to South and Central America, includes several very popular garden plants, the most commonly grown being T. majus, T. peregrinum and T.
Usually, these small plants are eaten raw, like watercress, in salads. However, older plants become bitter, and they are best cooked. American speedwell is high in vitamin C.
I obtained this plant from an Asian woman who told me it was a type of watercress her family ate in Korea. I puzzled over whether it could really be some kind of cress until I discovered she actually meant water celery, also known as water parsley.
(Cruciferae) -- This member of the mustard family was imported to the US along with many relatives; watercress, horseradish, and garlic mustard among them.
These included parsley, anise, pennyroyal, sorrel, watercress, liverwort, wild leeks, and lavender.
Young shoots - raw or cooked. They are eaten like watercress[46].
Medicinal Uses ...
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.
Both foliage and stem are sweetly fragrant with a delicate aniseed flavour: pick the leaves earlier in the season for flavouring fish dishes and try the stem very finely sliced into a salad with orange and watercress.
Watercress -- Nasturtium officinale by J.M. Stephens. HS 684 (2009)
Waterlily Leafcutter, Synclita obliteralis (Walker) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Acentropinae). EENY 424 a 4-page illustrated fact sheet by Dale H. Habeck and James P.
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, watercress ...
 See also: Cress, Green, Pepper, May, Nasturtium
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