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Cardamine occulta
Also called Hidden Bittercress, Nursery Bittercress, Common Bittercress, Greater Bittercress, Wavy Bittercress, Wood Bittercress, Woodland Bittercress
Asian wavy bittercress (Cardamine occulta) is a small annual or biennial weed in the cabbage family, native to parts of Asia and widely naturalised elsewhere. It is grown mainly as a wild or weedy plant rather than a garden crop, and it thrives in disturbed, moist ground.
Cardamine occulta, the hidden bittercress, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the Indian Subcontinent, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, most of Malesia, and Japan. It has been introduced many locales around the world, including most of Europe, the South Island of New Zealand, central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Cuba, the US state of Maryland, and Newfoundland. An annual or biennial, it is typically found in ruderal situations.
Large Bitter Cress · Seaside bittercress · Slender toothwort · Cardamine barbaraeoides · Alpine bittercress · Brewer's bittercress · Coralroot bittercress · Bulbous bittercress · Milkmaids · Cardamine carrii · Cutleaf toothwort · Constance's bittercress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cardamine occulta 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.
