";s:4:"text";s:3445:"Wintercress produces up to 10,000 seeds per plant, and they are very similar to hay and clover seed with regards to both size and weight so they spread well with them. Bitter cress, cuckoo flower,… As nouns the difference between watercress and cress is that watercress is a perennial european herb, nasturtium officinale , that grows in freshwater streams; used in salads and as a garnish while cress is (botany) a plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous the leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. Twin cress (formerly Coronopus didymus) is an annual weed which can germinate at any time of the year, though typically it establishes mainly in spring and autumn.As a seedling, it is a rosette rather than a scrambling plant. This one is quite small although the rosettes can get to 10cm across especially when they’re going to flower – the plant seems to expand and the leaves get more space between the lobes. The closely related winter cress, or yellow rocket (B. vulgaris), is a common weed, conspicuous in fields for its bright yellow spring flowers. A long time ago it could be seen growing on ballast soil deposits around harbours.
perhaps it got there from land-spread dung. Its victory parade began when traditional grazing land was given over to the cultivation of hay and sowing seed was imported from abroad. Land cress can be grown easily in any garden. It is commonly found in damp or disturbed soil. Hoary cress is indigenous to Mediterranean countries and the Middle East, but has spread over the years to cultivated land as a weed. In northern Finland the plant is still rare – so far. Land Cress; Pepperweed; Shot Weed; Snapweed; Phonetic Spelling kar-DA-mih-nee her-SOO-tuh Description.