Lepidium didymum |
Lepidium oblongum |
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lesser swinecress, lesser wartcress |
veiny pepperweed |
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Habit | Plants annual, fetid, glabrous or pilose. | Plants annual, hirsute. |
Stems | often decumbent, 1–4.5(7) dm. |
(5)1–2.4(3.2) 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, 0.7–3.5 cm, 1- or 2-pinnatifid; lobes entire or dentate; petioles (0.5)1–3. |
Cauline leaves | similar to basal, 1.5–3.5(4.5) × 0.5–1.2 cm, bases not auriculate, petiolate to subsessile. |
0.8–2 cm × 2–9 mm, bases auriculate or not; margins laciniate or pinnatifid, sessile, rarely short-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 hirsute with straight cylindrical trichomes, fruiting pedicels divaricate to horizontal; terete, slightly recurved or rarely straight, 2–3.5(5) mm, puberulent adaxially or rarely 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 to somewhat persistent, 0.7–1 mm; petals absent or rudimentary, linear-oblanceolate, 0.1–0.7 × 0.05–0.15 mm, white; stamens 2; median; styles to 0.1 mm, included in 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, orbicular to obovate or elliptic, 2.2–3.5 × 2–3 mm; apical notch 0.2–0.3 mm deep; valves smooth, glabrous or sparsely puberulent along margin, not veined, apically winged. |
Seeds | ovate, 1–1.2 × 0.7–0.8 mm; cotyledons incumbent. |
ovate, 1.2–1.6 × 0.7–1 mm; wingless; cotyledons incumbent. |
2n | =32. |
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Lepidium didymum |
Lepidium oblongum |
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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. |
Prairies, pastures, disturbed areas. Flowering Apr–Aug. 200–400 m. Sisk. CA; midwestern and southern US, Mexico. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 494 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 495 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Coronopus didymus | Lepidium oblongum var. oblongum |
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