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Definition of Spring cress
1. Noun. Small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spring Cress
Literary usage of Spring cress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Spring Flora for High Schools by Henry Chandler Cowles, John Gaylord Coulter (1915)
"C. bulbosa, spring cress. Stem smooth, from a tuberous base and a slender rootstock
... ARABIS Cardamine Douglasii, spring cress. Stem from fibrous roots, ..."
2. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"ARABIS Cardamine Douglasii, spring cress. Stem from fibrous roots, with no tubers,
bearing alternate simple or pinnatifid leaves, a cluster of white or ..."
3. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"The spring-cress grows abundantly in the wet meadows and about the borders of
springs. Its large white flowers appear as early as April, lasting until June. ..."
4. Flora of Middlesex County, Massachusetts by Lorin Low Dame, Frank Shipley Collins, Edward P. Adams (1888)
"WHITE SPRING-CRESS. Medford and Belmont (FS Collins) ; Woburn (CE Perkins) ;
Framingham (Rev. ... PURPLE SPRING- CRESS. Arlington, May 8, 1865 (Wm. Boott). ..."
5. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"SPRING-CRESS. Cardamine rhomboidea. Mustard Family. ... The spring-cress grows
abundantly in the wet meadows and about the borders of springs. ..."
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