Bittercresses – Cardamine SPP.: Pepper Root of Edible & Medicinal Wild Plants
Does anyone have an Anishinaabemowin word for bittercresses? 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) …