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Barbarea verna
Also called American Cress, American Winter Cress, Early Winter Cress, Land Cress, Normandy Cress, Upland Cress, Early Wintercress
Early yellowrocket (Barbarea verna) is a winter-green leafy herb in the cabbage family, grown as a salad or cooking green and a stand-in for watercress. It is a biennial that overwinters as a rosette, then flowers in early spring.
Barbarea verna is a biennial herb in the family Brassicaceae. Common names include land cress, American cress, bank cress, black wood cress, Belle Isle cress, Bermuda cress, poor man's cabbage, early yellowrocket, early wintercress, scurvy cress, creasy greens, and upland cress. It is native to southern Europe and western Asia, and naturalized elsewhere It has been cultivated as a leaf vegetable in England since the 17th century. As it requires less water than watercress, it is easier to cultivate.
Land cress is considered a satisfactory substitute for watercress. It can be used in sandwiches, or salads, or cooked like spinach, or used in soups or pestos.
Barbarea australis · American yellowrocket · Garden yellowrocket · Yellowrocket
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Barbarea verna by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
