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Garden cress. Plant ID confusion.
I've planted some garden cress. At least that is what the (French) seed
packet says, and the youngest leaves looks like the picture on the packet. However, I've googled it and there seems to be several different plants called garden cress. The closest one to mine seems to be Lepidium sativum but that apparently has white / pink flowers and mine has yellow flowers. I was beginning to wonder if there were some weed seeds mixed in the packet as the leaves on the young plants seem different to those on the flower spikes, the latter being more pointy tipped; however closer examination reveals both types of leaf to be on the same plant. I haven't found any really clear photos on Google to help with definitive plant ID. Anyone recognise the pictures? Yellow flower spikes: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/Photos/Hpim7922a.jpg Smaller non-flowering rosettes: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/Photos/Hpim7927a.jpg -- David in Normandy. To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the subject line, or it will be automatically deleted by a filter and not reach my inbox. |
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Garden cress. Plant ID confusion.
David in Normandy writes
I've planted some garden cress. At least that is what the (French) seed packet says, and the youngest leaves looks like the picture on the packet. However, I've googled it and there seems to be several different plants called garden cress. The closest one to mine seems to be Lepidium sativum but that apparently has white / pink flowers and mine has yellow flowers. I was beginning to wonder if there were some weed seeds mixed in the packet as the leaves on the young plants seem different to those on the flower spikes, the latter being more pointy tipped; however closer examination reveals both types of leaf to be on the same plant. I haven't found any really clear photos on Google to help with definitive plant ID. Anyone recognise the pictures? Yellow flower spikes: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/Photos/Hpim7922a.jpg Smaller non-flowering rosettes: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/Photos/Hpim7927a.jpg It's not unusual for basal leaves to be a different shape from stem leaves. I wouldn't worry -- Kay |
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Garden cress. Plant ID confusion.
In message , David in Normandy
writes I've planted some garden cress. At least that is what the (French) seed packet says, and the youngest leaves looks like the picture on the packet. However, I've googled it and there seems to be several different plants called garden cress. The closest one to mine seems to be Lepidium sativum but that apparently has white / pink flowers and mine has yellow flowers. I was beginning to wonder if there were some weed seeds mixed in the packet as the leaves on the young plants seem different to those on the flower spikes, the latter being more pointy tipped; however closer examination reveals both types of leaf to be on the same plant. I haven't found any really clear photos on Google to help with definitive plant ID. Anyone recognise the pictures? Yellow flower spikes: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/Photos/Hpim7922a.jpg Smaller non-flowering rosettes: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/Photos/Hpim7927a.jpg Yellow-flowered crucifers are, in my experience, difficult to identify. However Barbarea verna goes by the name of American cress, land cress or American land cress (even though it originates in Europe). Your photographs aren't obviously not of this species, but I can't exclude any of the other species of this genus, nor, in the absence of fruits, the yellow cresses (Rorippa sp.) Wikipedia Francais gives the French vernacular names for Barbarea verna as cresson de terre (land cress) or cresson de jardin (garden cress), which is support for identification as Barbarea verna (but how many other plants do the French also call cresson de jardin?) -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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