Cress

Cress may refer to:

Plants

Plants cultivated for their edible leaves:

• Barbarea verna, land cress, a biennial herb
• Garden cress, Lepidium sativum, a leafy vegetable
• Watercress, a perennial

Other plants not usually cultivated or consumed:

• Arabis alpina, alpine rock-cress, a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to mountainous areas of Europe, North Africa, Central and Eastern Asia and parts of North America
• Cardamine bulbosa, bittercress, bulbous cress, spring cress, a perennial plant native to Eastern North America, found in moist soils of bottomland woods and wet meadows
• Leavenworthia stylosa, cedar gladecress, a species of flowering plant in the mustard family, found only in the Central Basin of Tennessee, where it grows in cedar glades, ditches, and low-lying fields
• Cardamine hirsuta, hoary bittercress, hairy bittercress, lamb's cress, a member of the mustard family, an annual or biennial plant native to Europe and Asia, but also present in North America
• Lepidium, peppercress, a genus of plants in the mustard family, Brassicaceae, widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia
  • Lepidium meyenii, maca, an herbaceous biennial plant of the crucifer family, native to the high Andes of Peru around Lake Junin, grown for its fleshy hypocotyl, used as a root vegetable and a medicinal herb
  • Lepidium latifolium, pepperweed, peppergrass, dittander, tall whitetop, native to Mediterranean countries and Asia as far east as the Himalayas
  • Lepidium draba, whitetop or hoary cress, native to western Asia and southeastern Europe
• Rockcress (disambiguation), several genera of Brassicaceae
  • Arabis, with primarily Old World species, a genus of flowering plants, within the family Brassicaceae
  • Arabidopsis, with primarily European species
  • Boechera, with primarily North American species
• Arabidopsis thaliana, thale cress
• Coronopus, wartcress, swinecress
• Barbarea, winter cress
• Rorippa, yellowcress

People

Surname

• Curt Cress (born 1952), German drummer and composer
• Frances Cress Welsing (born 1935), 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

Given name

• Cress Williams (born 1968), African American film and television actor

Other

• 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 Klonoa: Door to Phantomile for the PlayStation
• Cress (Pokémon), a character from the Pokemon series