Cardamine hirsuta, commonly called hairy bittercress, popping cress, common bittercress, hoary bittercress, hairy wood-cress, small bittercress, pepperweed, shotweed, or snapweed, is an annual or bien
In spermatophyte plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and rely upon a variety of dispersal vectors to transport
Cardamine hirsuta
…the top after being touched and burst explosively, sending the seeds flying far from the parent plant. This seed dispersal strategy is referred to as ballochory and is a type of rapid plant movement. Hairy bittercress is very similar to Cardamine flexuosa. Some differences are that C. hirsuta stems are hairless…
Epilobium hirsutum seed head dispersing seeds
The "bill" and seed dispersal mechanism of Geranium pratense