bittercress

1. Any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers;
   Cosmopolitan except Antarctic (synset 111902211)
   is a type of: cress, cress plant - any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
   subtypes:

   • cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, cuckooflower, lady's smock, meadow cress - a bitter cress of Europe and America
   • cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, coralwort, dentaria bulbifera - European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock
   • cardamine diphylla, crinkle root, crinkle-root, crinkleroot, dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort - North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots
   • cardamine bulbosa, spring cress - small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America
   • cardamine douglasii, purple cress - small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers
   belongs to: cardamine, genus cardamine - bittercress, bitter cress
   same as: bitter cress

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