Lepidium sativum
Garden Cress, Peppergrass, Cultivated Cress, Gardencress Pepperweed, Pepperwort, Tongue Cress, Town Cress, Garden Cress Pepperweed, Garden Peppergrass, Garden Pepperwort, Cress, Biolar garraí, Tongue-grass, Camcuruih, ЦӀуьлуьк, Lepidium sativum
Description
An annual herbaceous plant with a short growing cycle, much in demand in the agri-food industry for its tender leaves with their typical sour and slightly spicy flavour. It can be grown in open fields, flowerbeds and tubs, taking care to irrigate and fertilise with the correct timing. It is characterised by vigorous growth and abundant branching.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Brassicales
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Lepidium
- Species
- Lepidium sativum
Synonyms (10)
- Arabis chinensis
- Cardamon sativum
- Crucifera nasturtium
- Lepia sativa
- Lepidium spinescens
- Nasturtium crispum
- Nasturtium sativum
- Nasturtium spinescens
- Thlaspidium sativum
- Thlaspi sativum
