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Brewer's bittercress

Cardamine breweri

Brewer's bittercress
Photo: Joe F. Duft, Public domain

Brewer's bittercress is a small perennial herb of the cabbage family, native to western North America, that grows in wet bogs and coniferous forest. It does best in cool, moist, boggy conditions.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently wet or boggy; do not let it dry out.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich, acidic soil or boggy garden mix.
Temperature
Cool to moderate temperatures; tolerant of cold winters in its native range.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Canada to Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua)
Climate
temperate

About

Cardamine breweri is a species of cardamine known by the common name Brewer's bittercress. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in coniferous forests, particularly in wet bog habitats.

Other Cardamine plants

Crinkleroot · Hairy bittercress · Chinese Ivy · Little western bittercress · Pennsylvania bittercress · Five Leaflet Bitter Cress · Whorled Coralroot · Trefoil Cress

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cardamine breweri 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.

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