Cress can refer to several edible members of the family Brassicaceae used as leaf vegetables including
- watercress
- land cress (also known as Belle Isle cress, Early yellowrocket, American cress, dryland cress, upland cress, cassabully, creasy salad, Early winter cress, American cress and American watercress).
- garden cress (also known as garden pepper cress, pepper grass or pepperwort)
- winter cress (also known as Yellow rockets, Barbarea)
Cress may also refer to the name given to the character Cless Alvein in the North American translation of the Game Boy Advance video game Tales of Phantasia.
Cress is also the name of an Anarcho-punk band, a pun on the influential band Crass.