Nasturtium officinale (Common names)

(also Nasturtium officinale x microphyllum)

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Names in common use

• English: watercress, water cress; greencress¹; brown cress, winter watercress²
• German: Brunnenkresse, Kresse
• Dutch: waterkers
• Swedish: vattenkrasse, källfräne, källkrasse
• Danish: brøndkarse
• Norwegian: brøndkarse
• Icelandic:
  

• French: cresson³; cresson de fontaine
• Italian: crescione, crescione d'acqua, crescione delle fontane
• Spanish: berro
• Catalan: créixens, créixems, morritort d'aigua
• Portuguese: agrião (often in plural: agriões)
• Romanian: năsturel, brîncuţă
  

• Russian: воданой кресс, жеруха аптечкая - vodanoj kress, žeruxa aptečkaja
• Polish: rukiew, rukiew wodna, rzeṙucha wodna
• Czech: řeřišnice potoční, potočnice lékarská
• Slovak:
• Bulgarian: воден кресон, поточарка, пореч - voden kreson, potočarka, poreč
• Croatian: dragušac, potočarka, drezga, grbača
• Serb: крстовник - krstovnik
• Slovenian:
  

• Latvian:
• Lithuanian:
• Albanian:
• Greek: κάρδαμο του νερού, νεροκάρδαμο - kardhamo tou nerou, nerokardhamo
• Turkish: su teresi
• Maltese:
• Hungarian: vizitorma
• Finnish: ryytinenätti, vesikrassi
• Estonian:
  

Sources and commentaries

(1) Nasturtium officinale only

(2) Nasturtium officinale x microphyllum only

(3) In French, cresson, without qualifier, is usually watercress. In many other languages, it is Lepidium sativum. MC