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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

 

 

 

 

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