Fast-growing cress (peppergrass)
Explanation:
This is a marketing term. Gartenkresse is common in German supermarkets, but not in the US.
https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/varieties-and-types-o...
Pictured is watercress, the most popular type of cress sold in the United States. Other varieties include upland cress, curly cress, and land cress. A peppery taste is characteristic of all varieties.
https://www.britannica.com/plant/cress
Common garden cress, or peppergrass (Lepidium sativum), a fast-growing, often weedy native of western Asia, is widely grown, especially in its curl-leaved form, and the seedlings are used as a garnish.
https://sproutpeople.org/curly-cress-micro-greens/
Curly Cress Micro-Greens
AKA Pepper Grass, this spicy mucilaginous Brassica (the same family as Broccoli, Cabbage, Mustard, Radish...) is, in flavor, something like Watercress and is a very fast grower which, because it is mucilaginous, should Not be Soaked when grown straight.
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Note added at 12 hrs (2018-09-19 19:56:37 GMT)
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This company has Einfache Kresse and Großblättrige Kresse as different cultivars of Lepidium sativum L. (Gartenkresse).
https://www.bingenheimersaatgut.de/index.php?cPath=125_139&l...
https://www.ackerladen.de/produkt/gartenkresse-2/
https://www.dehner.de/produkte/dehner-samen-gartenkresse-ein...
https://www.tom-garten.de/gartenkresse-einfache.html
So 'einfache' indicates the simple/basic cultivar.
A more international account of cress:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0646e/T0646E0t.htm
Botanical name: Lepidium sativum L.
Family: Brassicaceae = Cruciferae
Common names. English: cress, common cress, garden cress, land cress, pepper cress; Spanish: mastuerzo, mastuerzo hortense, lepidio, berro de jard�n (Spain), berro de sierra, berro hortense (Argentina), escobilla (Costa Rica); Catalan: morritort, morris�, Portuguese and Galician: masturco, mastruco, agri�o-mouro, herba do esforzo; Portuguese: mastruco do Sul, agri�o (Brazil); Basque: buminka, beatzecrexu
Origin of the name
Cultivation of this species, which is native to Southwest Asia (perhaps Persia) and which spread many centuries ago to western Europe, is very old, as is shown by the philological trace of its names in different Indo-European languages...
Common cress (L. sativum L.), with regard to the anatomy of the leaf, stem and root, has been divided into three botanical varieties: vulgare, crispum and latifolium. The latter is the most mesomorphic, crispum the most xeromorphic and vulgare intermediate.
http://internationalscholarsjournals.org/download.php?id=852...
Hereditary variability and relationship among yield related characteristics and oil content in Ethiopian garden cress (Lepidium sativum L.) genotypes
http://extension.usu.edu/yardandgarden/vegetables/garden-cre...
Garden cress or pepper-grass is an annual herb that was introduced to the United States from China... Common varieties include Wrinkled, Crinkled, Crumpled, Persian, and Curly.
To me, curly cress microgreens look most like the normal German type. There is a lot of conflicting information.
https://www.edenbrothers.com/store/cress_seeds_curled.html
Curled Cress is perhaps the best known and most commonly used of the 12 or so varieties of cress.
At the moment, I prefer 'Standard German/Austrian cress'.
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Note added at 1 day 13 mins (2018-09-20 07:22:20 GMT)
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Or put the cultivar/selling name afterwards: Garden cress 'einfache'
Since translating names not covered by the Latin designation is tricky business.
This is how it would appear on the seed packet:
https://www.gartenversandhaus.de/Samen-Neuheiten/BIO-Gartenk...
It seems that garden cress is the majority preference for Gartenkresse and I don't object to it even though it isn't 'garden variety' everywhere, but your question was Einfache (Garten)Kresse.
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