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Hairy Bittercress from Cabbage Family

Botanical Name

Cardamine hirsuta

Soil

A common weed on bare ground, rocks, screes, dunes and walls throughout the British Isles. Often a pest in gardens.

Sun Aspect

Full Sun

Soil Moisture

Dry

Plant Type

Annual Herb with slender tap-root and erect simple or basally branched stem with basal leaves in a compact rosette.

Height x Spread in feet

1 x 0.5

Foliage

Mid Green

Flower Colour in Month(s). Seeds

White in March-August

Comment

Rarely visited by small insects and automatically self-pollinated.

Available as seed from John Chambers' Wild Flower Seeds