Cress Explained

Cress may refer to:

Plants

Plants cultivated for their edible leaves:

Garden cress, Lepidium sativum
Land cress, Barbarea verna
Watercress, Nasturtium officinale

Other plants not usually cultivated or consumed:

Bittercress, Cardamine species, or others
Gladecress, Leavenworthia species
Hoary cress, Lepidium draba
Peppercress, Lepidium species
Rockcress, several genera
Swinecress or wartcress, Coronopus
Thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana
Winter cress, Barbarea
Yellowcress, several genera

People

Cress Williams (born 1968), African American film and television actor
Curt Cress (born 1952), German drummer and composer
Frances Cress Welsing (1935–2016), 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
Cress, the name of the fictional Moon Kingdom in the 1997 platform game for the PlayStation
Cress (Pokémon), a character from the Pokemon series

See also