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Hairy Bittercress

Cardamine hirsuta

Photo by LarsKorb
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Field Notes

Description:

Edible as a bitter herb. It flowers from quite early in the Spring until the Autumn. The small white flowers are borne in a corymb on wiry green stems, soon followed by the seeds and often continuing to flower as the first seeds ripen.

Habitat:

Europe and Asia; damp, recently disturbed soil

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (9)

Welcome.. Lars... I assumed on flower structure.. I did not have time for verify genus.. as I have limited access on net... :(
Yea, thanks to you too, Ashish...but Brassicaceae was just a little too wide ranged ;)
My guess was right... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamine
Thanks a lot for the direction, missjellyfishy - found the exact one with it.
Look like one of Brassicaceae....
yes, the radial symmetry caught actually my eye, Emma
Every stem has an opposite leaf arrangement with a terminal leaflet. Stems are are arranged radially.interesting and pretty arrangement.

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