The fact that the Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) has been able to spread almost worldwide is not only due to its extreme adaptability. Its ability to fling its seeds over a metre across the area has also helped it to spread.
Hairy bittercress grows as an annual and can show its small white flowers as early as the beginning of February. It grows up to 30 centimetres high and can be found along roadsides, in gardens, parks, meadows and on walls, embankments and banks.
