Common name:
Cress

Family name:
Cruciferae

Botanical name:
Cardamine spp.

Flowering/fruiting season:
Spring

Location:
All elevations; found in water courses (Flood, 1980:96)

Use:

• Food
• Leaves eaten raw (Flood, 1980)
• Leaf and stems eaten (Gott, 1995)

Notes:

• Available all year possibly, best in winter & spring (Gott, 1995)
• Herb less then 50cm; small flowers - pink, white, purple. Five species for ACT, mostly higher elevations. (Burdidge & Gray, 1976:182-3)

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Similar species:
Rorippa spp.

Use code:
LEA