Cress
 |
Look up cress or cresses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Cress may refer to:
Plants
Plants cultivated for their edible leaves:
- Barbarea verna, land cress, a biennial herb
- Garden cress, Lepidium sativum, a leafy vegetable
- Watercress, a perennial
Other plants not usually cultivated or consumed:
- Arabis alpina, alpine rock-cress, a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to mountainous areas of Europe, North Africa, Central and Eastern Asia and parts of North America
- Cardamine bulbosa, bittercress, bulbous cress, spring cress, a perennial plant native to Eastern North America, found in moist soils of bottomland woods and wet meadows
- Leavenworthia stylosa, cedar gladecress, a species of flowering plant in the mustard family, found only in the Central Basin of Tennessee, where it grows in cedar glades, ditches, and low-lying fields
- Cardamine hirsuta, hoary bittercress, hairy bittercress, lamb's cress, a member of the mustard family, an annual or biennial plant native to Europe and Asia, but also present in North America
- Lepidium, peppercress, a genus of plants in the mustard family, Brassicaceae, widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia
- Lepidium meyenii, maca, an herbaceous biennial plant of the crucifer family, native to the high Andes of Peru around Lake Junin, grown for its fleshy hypocotyl, used as a root vegetable and a medicinal herb
- Lepidium latifolium, pepperweed, peppergrass, dittander, tall whitetop, native to Mediterranean countries and Asia as far east as the Himalayas
- Lepidium draba, whitetop or hoary cress, native to western Asia and southeastern Europe
- Rockcress (disambiguation), several genera of Brassicaceae
- Arabis, with primarily Old World species, a genus of flowering plants, within the family Brassicaceae
- Arabidopsis, with primarily European species
- Boechera, with primarily North American species
- Arabidopsis thaliana, thale cress
- Coronopus, wartcress, swinecress
- Barbarea, winter cress
- Rorippa, yellowcress
People
Surname
- Frances Cress Welsing (born 1935), African American psychiatrist
- Fred Cress (1938–2009), Australian artist
- George Oscar Cress (1862-1954), United States military officer
- Paul H. Cress (1939–2004), Canadian computer scientist
- Roman William Cress (born 1977), Marshallese athlete
Given name
- Cress Williams (born 1968), African American film and television actor
Other
- Cress (novel), a novel by Marissa Meyer
- CRESS: Centre for Research in Social Simulation, funded by Nigel Gilbert
- Cress, the name of the fictional Moon Kingdom in the 1997 platform game Klonoa: Door to Phantomile for the PlayStation
- Cress (Pokémon), a character from the Pokemon series
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.