Lepidium didymum |
Lepidium latifolium |
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lesser swinecress, lesser wartcress |
broad-leaved peppergrass, broad-leaved pepperweed, perennial pepperweed |
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Habit | Plants annual, fetid, glabrous or pilose. | Plants perennial, glabrous or pubescent; with thick rhizomes and woody caudices. |
Stems | often decumbent, 1–4.5(7) dm. |
(2)3.5–12(15) 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. |
not rosulate, elliptic-ovate to oblong; (2)3.5–15(25) cm × (5)15–50(80) mm; leathery; margins entire or serrate; petioles 1–9(14) 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 elliptic-ovate or lanceolate; (1)2–9(12) cm × 3–45 mm, bases not auriculate; margins serrate or entire, sessile or petiolate. |
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. |
rachises glabrous or puberulent with straight cylindrical trichomes, fruiting pedicels ascending to divaricate; terete; straight or curved, 2–5(6) mm, glabrous or puberulent adaxially. |
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, 1–1.4 mm; petals obovate, 1.8–2.5 × (0.8)1–1.3 mm, white; stamens 6; styles 0.05–0.15 mm, slightly 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, oblong-elliptic, broadly ovate or suborbicular; (1.6)1.8–2.4(2.7) × 1.3–1.8 mm; apical notch absent or rarely to 0.1 mm; valves smooth, glabrous or sparsely pilose, not veined; wingless. |
Seeds | ovate, 1–1.2 × 0.7–0.8 mm; cotyledons incumbent. |
oblong; (0.8)1–1.2 × 0.6–0.9 mm; cotyledons incumbent. |
2n | =32. |
=24. |
Lepidium didymum |
Lepidium latifolium |
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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. |
Saline meadows, streambanks, fields, grasslands, disturbed places, slopes, disturbed areas, sagebrush and pinyon-juniper communities, barren hillsides, edge of marshes. Flowering May–Sep. 0–1400 m. BW, Col, ECas, Est, Lava, Owy, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; western North America, widely scattered eastern North America; Africa, Asia, 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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