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My mother, who is 80 years old, talks about her mother foraging for dry land creases in KY. I asked if that might have been watercress, but Mom said they came from dry land. I have not been able to find any research on the plant.

A KY friend recently confessed she liked to eat all kinds of greens even foraged creasy greens her grandmother used to gather.

I wondered if her creasy greens and Mom’s dry land creases were the same.

Does anyone have insight to this plant?
 
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I feel that Mr. Google is a rather smart fellow as he usually has an answer to my question.

He told me about "Creasy greens".

The article would not let me copy/paste the parts that I want to share.

This simple green looks similar to its aquatic cousin and grows like a weed.

https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/edible-wild-plant-creasy-greens-zmaz84zloeck/
 
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I swear, I just in the last week read something about upland cress (which is creasy greens, AFAIK), but now I can't find it to link back to this. But I did find where you can buy seeds to throw around the edge of the yard.
 
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Anne and Christopher, thank you both for sending such informative links! I appreciate your valuable time. I had no idea creasy greens were so highly nutritive, easy to grow and had such a varied history.

I am going to order some seeds, plant them at the end of summer and surprise my Mom and friend with a mess ‘o creasy greens!  Thank you again.

EDIT: Seeds have been ordered from Strictly Medicinals
 
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