Japanese bittercress

Cardamine regeliana

Flower name
Japanese bittercress
Scientific name
Cardamine regeliana
Alias大葉種付花, Japanese bittercress
Place of originKorea, Northeast China, Russia, Japan
Place of floweringFields and footpaths, Rice paddies
Flowering seasonApril, May, June

What is Japanese bittercress

Birth flowers for Feb 3

Japanese bittercress, scientific name:Cardamine regeliana , is 2 year's grass of the Cardamine genus of the Brassicaceae. Stretched spikes from the stem tip upright by the roadside in the summer, a small white 4-petaled flowers bloom. The leaves of Rosetta is not, give the 1 times pinnate leaves at the base at the bottom. Small leaves long oval, and gaps in the shape of Palm. Is greater than the other leaflets leaflets. Hairy leaves and flowers.

Common name: Japanese bittercress, scientific name:Cardamine regeliana , Habitat: Hokkaido-Honshu-Shikoku and Kyushu,: rice field, plant 20-40 cm, flowering: April-June, flower, white, petal number: four.