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Garden Cress
Lepidium sativum
Cress (Lepidium sativum), sometimes referred to as garden cress to distinguish it from similar plants also referred to as cress (from old Germanic cresso which means sharp, spicy), is a rather fast-growing, edible herb.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.201
Herbarius
1485 · p.202
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.202
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.199
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.201
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.224
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.396
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.394
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.316
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.154
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.324
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.720
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lepidium sativum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 164527.