Cardamine occulta, the hidden bittercress, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the Indian Subcontinent, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, most of Malesia, and Japan. It has been introduced many locales around the world, including most of Europe, the South Island of New Zealand, central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Cuba, the US state of Maryland, and Newfoundland. An annual or biennial, it is typically found in ruderal situations.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Nursery bittercress being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Cardamine flexuosa
- Cardamine pensylvanica
- Cardamine umbellata
- Cardamine parviflora
- Cardamine scutata
- Cardamine oligosperma
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Brassicales
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Cardamine
- Species
- Cardamine occulta
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