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Upland Cress Overall Rating: (3.5 Stars):
2 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: 6- to 8-inch rosettes of dark-green, glossy leaves. Slow growing and slow to bolt. Also known as winter cress or creasy greens.

Curly Cress Cress Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 20-20
Description: Open-pollinated. Bright-green, tightly ruffled leaves. Also known as 'Curley Cress'.

Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled Cress Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 21-30
Description: Open-pollinated. Broad, spoon-shaped leaves that are extremely ruffled and wrinkled along the margins and savoyed in the middle. Resistant to bolting.

Watercress (variety not specified) Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-60
Description: Plants with small green leaves and hollow stems grow best in shady, wet spots.

Broadleaf Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 30-30
Description: 3- to 4-inch, peppery-flavored leaves -- larger than curly cress.

Cressida Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 10-10
Description: Can be grown indoors like radish sprouts or broadcast or sown in a band in the field. Flavor similar to watercress.

Presto Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 12-12
Description: Bright green, 3- to 4-inch by 1- to 2-inch frilly-edged leaves with upright growth similar to broadleaf cress. Can be sprouted inside or grown in the field.

American Cress Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 12-12
Description: Lepidium sativum. Harvest peppery-flavored, ruffled leaves when young and tender. Plants prefer moisture and part shade. Also known as Garden Cress and Land Cress.

Persian Garden Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 20-45
Description: 8- to 10-inch plants produce 2- to 6-inch, dark-green, peppery-flavored leaves in early spring. Native to Iran. Also known as 'Persian Braodleaf'.

Crescione Commune Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-45
Description: Italian cress. Plants produce spicy, bright-green, spoon-shaped leaves.

Belle Isle Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Plants produce very dark green rosettes of watercresslike leaves. Sow in August for harvest through fall and winter.

Pepper Cress Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Similar to water cress with spicy, peppery flavor.

Persian Cress Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 21-21
Description: Plants produce 2- to 6-inch, dark green leaves with small teeth and mild cress flavor.
 
 
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