| Family | Brassicaceae | 
| Scientific name | Cardamine hirsuta L. | 
| Synonyms | Cardamine hirsuta L. var. formosana Hayata; Ghinia hirsuta (L.) Bubani | 
| Common name | (Japanese common name) michi-tane-tsuke-bana (ミチタネツケバナ, 路種付花 [meaning: roadside rice seeding season flowers]) | 
| (English common name) hairy bitter-cress, common bittercress | |
| Distribution | (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa | 
| (Other nations) [native] Russia, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, India, Turkmenistan, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Europe, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Zaire | |
| Habitat | field, roadside | 
| Chromosomal number | 2n=16 (2x) | 
| Description | Plants electing 3-30cm tall. Flowers 4 white petals each 2-3mm long, 4 (or merely 5) stamens, flowering in January to June. Winter annuall plants. | 
| Reference | Cardamine hirsuta L. | 
| Cardamine hirsuta L. | |
| Cardamine hirsuta L. | |
| Ecological distribution and phenology of an invasive species, Cardamine hirsuta L., and its native counterpart, Cardamine flexuosa With., in central Japan | |
| Does invasion involve alternation of germination requirements? A comparative study between native and introduced strains of an annual Brassicaceae, Cardamine hirsuta | |
| DNA sequences identify invasive alien Cardamine at Lake Constance | |
| Plant transformation (WIPO Patent Application WO/2007/028979) | |
| New genes related to a process for the production of fine chemicals (European Patent Application EP1953235/2008) | |
| Note | Naturalized plants. | 
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