Hairy Bittercress
(Cardamine hirsuta L.)
Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)
▲▼ young plants
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▲▼flowers and fruit
▲▼ basal leaves
Hairy Bittercress:
· cool-season annual/winter annual with rosette of pinnately rounded lobed leaves (2-5” long)
· long hairs on base of petioles
· rosette leaves persist until flowering commences
· flowering stem is 4-12” tall, with little branching, white flowers followed by 1” long slender green to purplish pods
· common in greenhouses, nurseries, shaded landscapes, turf, container crops
· similar to sibara, but basal leaf lobes broader and seed pods less flattened than those of sibara