Hairy Bittercress

Hairy Bittercress

(Cardamine hirsuta L.)

Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)

▲ ▼ young plants

▲ ▼ 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