Lepidium draba |
Lepidium pinnatifidum |
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heart-podded hoary cress, hoary pepperwort |
featherleaf pepperweed |
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Habit | Plants perennial, hirsute to subglabrous; rhizomatous. | |
Stems | (0.8)2–6.5(9) dm. |
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Basal leaves | not rosulate, obovate, spatulate, or ovate; (1.5)3–10(15) × 1–4 cm; margins dentate or entire; petioles 1–4 cm. |
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Cauline leaves | ovate, elliptic, oblong, lanceolate, or obovate; (1)3–9(15) × (0.5)1–2(5) cm, bases sagittate-amplexicaul or auriculate; margins dentate or entire, sessile. |
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Inflorescences | corymbose panicles; rachises glabrous or puberulent with straight or curved cylindrical trichomes, fruiting pedicels ascending to horizontal; terete; straight, 5–10(15) mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent adaxially. |
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Flowers | sepals caducous, 1.5–2.5 mm; petals obovate; (2.5)3–4(4.5) × (1)1.3–2(2.2) mm, white; stamens 6; styles (0.6)1–1.8(2) mm. |
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Fruits | indehiscent, flattened, cordate to subreniform; (2)2.5–3.7(4.3) × (3.2)3.7–5(5.6) mm; tips obtuse to subacute; apical notch absent; valves smooth, glabrous, reticulate-veined; wingless. |
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Seeds | ovate, 1.5–2.3 × 1–1.3 mm; wingless; cotyledons incumbent. |
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2n | =32, 64. |
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Lepidium draba |
Lepidium pinnatifidum |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Disturbed areas, fields, riverbanks. Flowering Apr–Aug. 0–1700 m. BR, BW, Col, ECas, Owy, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; throughout North America except northern Canada and southeast US; nearly worldwide. Exotic. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 494 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Cardaria draba, Cardaria draba var. draba, Lepidium draba ssp. draba | |
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