Hairy bitter-cress
Cardamine hirsuta L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- —
Brassicaceae
Also called Hairy bittercress
Formerly Cardamine borbonica, Cardamine fagetina, Cardamine humilis, Cardamine micrantha, and 8 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. & Subtrop. Northern Hemisphere to Old World Trop. Mts.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 30 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Czech
- řeřišnice srstnatá
- German
- Behaartes Schaumkraut, Gartenschaumkraut, Ruderal-Schaumkraut
- Esperanto
- Harhava kardamino
- Finnish
- mäkilitukka
- French
- cardamine hérissée
- Japanese
- ミチタネツケバナ
- Dutch
- kleine veldkers, Kleine veldkers
- Chinese
- 白带草, 碎米荠, 碎米荠（原变种）
- Simplified Chinese
- 碎米荠, 粗毛碎米荠
- Slovenian
- dlakava penuša
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- 3D model: Cardamine hirsuta (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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