Scientific Name: Rorippa dictyosperma

Common Name: forest bittercress

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Brassicaceae

Form Description: Perennial herb, decumbent at base, branched and erect above.

Height (m): 0.3 – 0.9

Flowers: Flowers about 1.2cm in diameter, petals narrowly obovate and white, stamens 6.

Fruit: Capsule (siliqua) more or less erect, borne on spreading stalks about 1cm long. Valves have one conspicuous vein. Seeds – 1 row per locule, oval and with thin, translucent margins.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonBurnieCentral HighlandsDerwent ValleyDorsetGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartKingboroughLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasman
Plant Communities
Wet Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes

Common in moist shady places.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Shady

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Loam, Well-drained

Propagation Calendar

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  • Seed Collecting Month
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  • Sowing Month
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Propagation Method
Seed

Seed Information

Seed Treatment Method

Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.