purple cress


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Noun1.purple cress - small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers
Cardamine douglasii
bitter cress, bittercress - any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic
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