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Rorippa sylvestris
Also called Creeping Yellow Cress, Creeping Yellow Field Cress, Yellow Field Cress
Creeping yellowcress is a low-growing perennial in the cabbage family that spreads by runners and roots at the nodes, often in wet, disturbed ground. It is grown mainly as a wild or ornamental groundcover for damp spots, and its key to success is keeping the soil consistently moist.
Rorippa sylvestris (the creeping yellowcress, keek, or yellow fieldcress; syn. Radicula sylvestris (L.) Druce ) is an invasive species of plant in the United States, likely entering from Europe before 1818 from ballast water and spreading throughout North America through contaminated nursery seed stock.
Lake Watercress · Austrian yellowcress · Spreading yellowcress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rorippa sylvestris 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.
