| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Throughout the state, likely will be found in every county.
Native of Eurasia; in N.A. MA to Ont. and MI, south to FL and TX; also B.C. to CA; UT. | |
| Abundance | Common to locally abundant, except, apparently, the southern Coastal Plain where uncommon. | |
| Habitat | Dry to moist soils of roadsides, lawns, campuses, gardens, flower beds, disturbed soils, fields, mneadows. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting February-April (-May). | |
| Identification | Hairy Bittercress is hardly hairy. Only the leaf stems are hairy, but not densely so. Stems are glabrous (vs. hairy basally in C. flexuosa/occulta). Its stem leaf segments are narrower than in other alien bittercresses. Plants produce a persistent rosette of basal leaves (absent at flowering time in C. pensylvanica). | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | FACU link |
| USACE-emp | FACU link |
