Lepidium virginicum |
Lepidium sativum |
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hairy pepperweed, medium pepperweed |
garden cress, garden pepperwort, pepper cress |
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Habit | Plants annual, glabrous or sparsely pilose, often glaucous. | |
Stems | (1)2–8(10) dm. |
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Basal leaves | not rosulate, 2–8(10) cm, 1- or 2-pinnatifid or -pinnatisect; lobes ovate to oblong; margins entire or dentate; petioles 1–4 cm. |
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Cauline leaves | less divided; uppermost leaves often linear, bases not auriculate; margins entire, petiolate. |
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Inflorescences | rachises glabrous, fruiting pedicels erect to ascending, appressed to rachis; terete or rarely slightly flattened; straight, 1.5–4(6) mm, glabrous. |
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Flowers | sepals caducous, 1–1.8 mm; petals spatulate to obovate, 2–4 × 0.7–1.4 mm, white or lavender; stamens 6; styles 0.2–0.5(0.8) mm, included in or rarely subequaling apical notch. |
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Fruits | dehiscent, broadly ovate or ovate-oblong; (4)5–6.4(7) × 3–4.5(5.6) mm; apical notch 0.2–0.8 mm deep; valves smooth, glabrous, not veined, apically broadly winged. |
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Seeds | ovate-oblong, 2–2.7(3) × 1–1.5 mm; cotyledons incumbent, 3-lobed. |
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2n | =16, 32. |
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Lepidium virginicum |
Lepidium sativum |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Disturbed areas, cultivated areas. Flowering Apr–Aug. 0–400 m. WV. CA, WA; scattered throughout northern North America; Africa, Asia, Europe. Exotic. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 496 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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