Species
Watercress
Nasturtium officinale
Varieties
2 entries| Variety | Description | Prices (EUR) | Details |
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| Water cress ORGANICBSI-H802799 | — |
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| Water cressBSI-H802800 | — |
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Nasturtium officinale is watercress, a wetland member of Brassicaceae with divided leaves and small pale flowers.
Botanical characteristics
Its habitat includes streams, seeps and marshy margins. It is botanically distinct from Tropaeolum, the ornamental nasturtium with shield-shaped leaves, and from the annual garden cress Lepidium sativum.
Watercress seed article references
Watercress is the offered Nasturtium officinale seed reference for seed merchants and garden centres.
At a glance
Species profile
Botanical details
- Botanical name
- Nasturtium officinale
- Common names
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- agrião, berro, berros, bronkors, brunnenkresse, common watercress, cresson, cresson d'eau, cresson de fontaine, cresson officinal, dou ban cai, echte brunnenkresse, engelskkarse, isovesikrassi, kiæll-karse, källfräne, källkrasse, mizu-garashi, oranda-garashi, selada-air, southern watercress, true watercress, tykskulpet brøndkarse, vattenkrasse, water-cress, watercress, witte waterkers, 물냉이
- Synonyms
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- Arabis nasturtium, Baeumerta nasturtium, Cardamine aquatica, Cardamine fontana, Cardamine nasturtium-aquaticum, Cardaminum nasturtium, Crucifera fontana, Nasturtium alexandrinum, Nasturtium aquaticum, Nasturtium flexuosum, Nasturtium fontanum, Nasturtium fontanum var. longisiliquum, Nasturtium officinale f. subasarifolium, Nasturtium officinale subsp. parvifolium, Nasturtium officinale subsp. rotundifolium, Nasturtium officinale var. asarifolium, Nasturtium officinale var. insipidum, Nasturtium officinale var. intermedium, Nasturtium officinale var. macrocarpum, Nasturtium officinale var. minor, Nasturtium officinale var. parviflorum, Nasturtium officinale var. parvifolium, Nasturtium officinale var. paucijugatum, Nasturtium officinale var. platyphyllum, Nasturtium officinale var. praecox, Nasturtium officinale var. precosium, Nasturtium officinale var. siifolium, Nasturtium officinale var. vulgare, Nasturtium parvifolium, Nasturtium roridulum, Nasturtium siifolium, Radicula nasturtium, Radicula nasturtium-aquaticum, Radicula officinalis, Rorippa nasturtium, Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum, Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum var. longisiliqua, Rorippa officinalis, Sisymbrium amarum, Sisymbrium fluviatile, Sisymbrium nasturtium, Sisymbrium nasturtium-aquaticum, Sisymbrium officinale var. parvifolium
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Brassicales
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Nasturtium
- Species
- Nasturtium officinale