FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
BARBAREA PRAECOX, AMERICAN CRESS, BELLE ISLE CRESS, EARLY WINTER CRESS, LAND CRESS, SCURVY GRASS
Hedrick, U.P. editor. 1919. Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919 II. Albany, J.B Lyon Company, State Printers. [References Available]
is a plant grown in europe. This cress is occasionally cultivated for salad in the Middle States under the name scurvy grass and is becoming spontaneous farther south. It is grown in gardens in England as a cress and is used in winter and spring salads. In Germany, it is generally liked. In the Mauritius, it is in regular cultivation and is known as early winter cress. In the United States, its seeds are offered in seed catalogs.
