Bittercresses – Cardamine SPP.: Edible & Medicinal Uses of the Pepper Root of Wild Plants
Bittercresses are in the mustard family and include toothworts. The Latin name “Kardamine” means water or pepper grass. The folk name “pepper root” tells what this edible wild plant tastes like. Bittercresses (Cardamine SPP.) like the twoleaf toothwort in our pictures here (Cardamine diphylla syn. Dentaria diphylla) are related to mustard. Dentaria diphylla is the outdated … [Read more…]