Lepidium didymum |
Lepidium heterophyllum |
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lesser swinecress, lesser wartcress |
purple-anther field pepperweed, Smith's pepperwort |
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Habit | Plants annual, fetid, glabrous or pilose. | Plants perennial, hirsute; with branched caudices. |
Stems | often decumbent, 1–4.5(7) dm. |
1–5 dm. |
Basal leaves | not rosulate, 1–6(8) cm, 1- or 2-pinnatisect; lobes entire or dentate, sometimes deeply lobed; petioles 0.5–4(6) cm. |
rosulate, oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 1–4.5 cm × 4–14 mm; margins dentate or entire; petioles 1–6.2 cm. |
Cauline leaves | similar to basal, 1.5–3.5(4.5) × 0.5–1.2 cm, bases not auriculate, petiolate to subsessile. |
oblong to deltoid-lanceolate, 1–3.5 cm × 3–8 mm, bases sagittate or auriculate; margins dentate to denticulate. |
Inflorescences | rachises glabrous or pubescent with straight cylindrical trichomes, fruiting pedicels divaricate to horizontal; terete; straight or slightly recurved, 1.4–2.5(4) mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent adaxially. |
elongated; rachises hirsute with straight, spreading trichomes, fruiting pedicels horizontal; terete; straight or slightly recurved, 2.8–5 mm; hirsute all around. |
Flowers | sepals caducous, 0.5–0.7(0.9) mm; petals elliptic to linear, 0.4–0.5 × ~0.1 mm, white; stamens 2; median; styles absent or obsolete, included in apical notch. |
sepals caducous, 1.6–2.2 mm; petals spatulate, 1.8–2.8 × 0.8–1.4 mm, white; stamens 6; styles (0.6)1–1.5 mm; well exserted beyond apical notch. |
Fruits | indehiscent, didymous, 1.3–1.7 × 2–2.5 mm; apical notch 0.2–0.4 mm deep; valves thick, rugose, glabrous, strongly veined; wingless. |
dehiscent, broadly oblong to ovate, 4–5.5 × 3.5–4 mm, incurved adaxially; apical notch 0.2–0.3 mm deep; valves often not papillate, not veined, apically broadly winged. |
Seeds | ovate, 1–1.2 × 0.7–0.8 mm; cotyledons incumbent. |
ovoid, 1.8–2.2 × 1–1.2 mm; wingless; cotyledons incumbent. |
2n | =32. |
=48. |
Lepidium didymum |
Lepidium heterophyllum |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Disturbed areas, fields, pastures. Flowering May–Oct. 0–300 m. Est, WV. CA, WA; north to British Columbia, eastern Canada and US, southern US; nearly worldwide. Exotic. |
Disturbed areas, fields, gardens, hillsides. Flowering Apr–Jun. 0–800 m. CR, Est, Sisk, WV. CA, WA; north to British Columbia, NJ, NY, MA; Europe. Exotic. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 494 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 494 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Coronopus didymus | |
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