Cardamine trichocarpa Hochst. ex A.Rich.

Annual herb with a taproot, unbranched or profusely branched from the base upwards.. Stems erect or ascending 5–50 cm. high, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.. Rosette and cauline leaves similar, pinnatipartite, with a terminal and 1–5 pairs of lateral leaflets, 1–15 cm. long (including petiole), oblong in outline, not auriculate, moderately strigose; leaflets ovate, serrate to crenate, the terminal one 5–38 mm. long with 3–12 mm. long petiole, the lateral ones 5–48 mm. long with 0.4–5.4 mm. long petioles.. Racemes mostly terminal on long branches or main stem, very dense with numerous minute greenish often cleistogamous flowers, in fruit condensed to very lax (up to 20 cm. long), but even then with a dense terminal fascicle of erect to ascending siliquae overtopping the flowers; lower pedicels in fruit 1.4–7 mm. long, with spreading to divaricate siliquae.. Sepals oblong, 0.7–2 mm. long, green with scattered hairs.. Petals shorter than sepals or absent.. Stamens 4 (all median); anthers ± 0.5 mm. long.. Ovary oblong to cylindrical, with a practically sessile stigma.. Siliqua with scattered hairs (rarely glabrous), linear, 8–26 mm. long, 0.5–1.7 mm. broad, tapered towards the style, which is 0.5–1.3 mm. long and ± 0.3 mm. broad.. Seeds reddish brown, broadly oblong in outline, ± 1.5 mm. long and 0.8 mm. broad, minutely rugose.. Fig. 13, p. 41.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in moist places in mountainous areas between 700-3,100 m above sea level. It grows in areas with an annual rainfall between 1,200-1,800 mm.

The leaves are wilted, chopped, boiled and eaten as a vegetable.

Can be grown by seedlings.