Garden cress
Cress (''Lepidium sativum''), sometimes referred to as garden cress (or curly cress) to distinguish it from similar plants also referred to as cress (from old Germanic ''cresso'' which means sharp, spicy), is a rather fast-growing, edible herb. ...
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Land cress
''Barbarea verna'' is a biennial herb in the family Brassicaceae. Common names include land cress, American cress, bank cress, black wood cress, Belle Isle cress, Bermuda cress, early yellowrocket, early wintercress, scurvy cress, creasy greens ...
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Watercress
Watercress or yellowcress (''Nasturtium officinale'') is a species of aquatic flowering plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae.
Watercress is a rapidly growing perennial plant native to Europe and Asia. It is one of the oldest known leaf v ...
, ''Nasturtium officinale''
Other plants not usually cultivated or consumed:
* Bittercress, ''Cardamine'' species, or others
* Gladecress, ''Leavenworthia'' species
* Hoary cress, ''Lepidium draba''
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Peppercress
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.Rockcress, several genera
* Swinecress or wartcress, ''Coronopus''
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Thale cress
''Arabidopsis thaliana'', the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis, is a small flowering plant native to Eurasia and Africa. ''A. thaliana'' is considered a weed; it is found along the shoulders of roads and in disturbed land.
A winter a ...
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Winter cress
''Barbarea'' (winter cress or yellow rocket) is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in southern Europe and southwe ...
Cress Williams
Cress Williams (born July 26, 1970) is an American actor, known for his roles in ''Prison Break'' and '' Close to Home''. His most recent roles include Mayor Lavon Hayes on The CW series ''Hart of Dixie'' and the title character on The CW's ''Bla ...
(born 1968), African American film and television actor
* Curt Cress (born 1952), German drummer and composer
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Frances Cress Welsing
Frances Luella Welsing (née Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the Black supremacist melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, ''The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White ...
(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
Other uses
* ''Cress'' (novel), a novel by Marissa Meyer
* CRESS: Centre for Research in Social Simulation, funded by
Nigel Gilbert
Geoffrey Nigel Gilbert (born 21 March 1950) is a British sociologist and a pioneer in the use of agent-based models in the social sciences. He is the founder and director of the ''Centre for Research in Social Simulation'' ( University of Sur ...
* 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
