Lepidium alyssoides |
Lepidium campestre |
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mesa pepperwort |
field cress, field pepper-grass, field pepper-weed, field peppergrass pepperwort |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs; (woody base often aboveground); glabrous or minutely puberulent. | Annuals; densely hirsute. |
Stems | few to several from base, erect to ascending, branched throughout, (0.7–)1–4.8(–6.1) dm. |
simple from base, erect, unbranched or branched distally, (0.8–)1.2–5(–6.3) dm. |
Basal leaves | often not rosulate; petiole 1–6 cm; blade pinnately lobed, (1–)1.5–8(–11) cm × (5–)10–35 mm, margins (of lobes) entire or denticulate. |
rosulate; petiole (0.5–)1.5–6 cm; blade oblanceolate or oblong, (1–)2–6(–8) cm × 5–15 mm, margins entire, lyrate, or pinnatifid. |
Cauline leaves | sessile; blade linear, (0.8–)1.3–7(–9.5) cm × (0.7–)1–2(–3) mm, base attenuate, not auriculate, margins entire. |
sessile; oblong, lanceolate, or narrowly deltate-lanceolate, (0.7–)1–4(–6.5) cm × (2–)5–10(–15) mm, base sagittate or auriculate, margins dentate or subentire. |
Racemes | elongated in fruit; rachis puberulent or glabrous. |
much-elongated in fruit; rachis hirsute, trichomes spreading, straight. |
Flowers | sepals ovate to oblong, 1–2 × 0.8–1 mm; petals white, suborbicular, 2–3 × 1–2 mm, claw 0.5–1.5 mm; stamens 6; filaments 1.5–2 mm, (glabrous); anthers 0.2–0.4 mm. |
sepals oblong, (1–)1.3–1.8 × 0.6–0.8 mm; petals white, spatulate, (1.5–)1.8–2.5(–3) × (0.2–)0.5–0.7 mm, claw 0.6–1 mm; stamens 6; filaments (1.2–)1.5–1.8(–2) mm, (glabrous); anthers 0.3–0.5 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate to horizontal, straight or recurved to somewhat sigmoid, (terete), 3.5–8(–11) × 0.2 mm, glabrous or puberulent adaxially. |
horizontal, straight or slightly recurved, (terete), (3–)4–8(–10) × 0.3–0.4 mm, hirsute. |
Fruits | broadly ovate, 2–3.7(–4.3) × (1.5–)1.8–2.9(–3.4) mm, apically winged, apical notch 0.1–0.3(–0.4) mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined, glabrous; style 0.2–0.6 mm, exserted beyond apical notch. |
broadly oblong to ovate, (4–)5–6(–6.5) × (3–)4–5 mm, (curved adaxially), apically broadly winged, apical notch (0.2–)0.4–0.6 mm deep; valves thin, papillate except for wing, not veined; style 0.2–0.5(–0.7) mm, slightly exserted beyond, or included in, apical notch. |
Seeds | ovate, 1.5–1.8(–2) × 0.9–1.2(–1.5) mm. |
(dark brown), ovoid, 2–2.3(–2.8) × 1–1.4 mm. |
2n | = 32. |
= 16. |
Lepidium alyssoides |
Lepidium campestre |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Pinyon-juniper or sagebrush communities, prairies, grasslands, sandstone outcrops, gypsum flats, sand dunes, dry flats and river bottoms, gravelly roadsides | Roadside, pastures, gardens, open flats, pine woodlands, rocky slopes, forests, waste grounds, disturbed areas, meadows, fields |
Elevation | 1200-2800 m (3900-9200 ft) | 0-2600 m (0-8500 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; NV; TX; UT; WY; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí)
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AL; AR; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MO; MS; MT; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; SC; TN; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; BC; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; SK; Europe; Asia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America, South Africa]
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Discussion | Of the five varieties of Lepidium alyssoides recognized by R. C. Rollins (1993), one (var. mexicanum Rollins) is a short-tufted form of the species restricted to Mexico that does not seem to merit recognition, another (var. junceum) is a glabrescent form of the type variety, a third (var. eastwoodiae) is treated below as a distinct species, and the fourth (var. angustifolium) is included here within L. alyssoides. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 575. | FNA vol. 7, p. 577. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Lepidieae > Lepidium | Brassicaceae > tribe Lepidieae > Lepidium |
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Synonyms | L. alyssoides var. angustifolium, L. alyssoides var. junceum, L. alyssoides var. minus, L. alyssoides var. polycarpum, L. alyssoides var. streptocarpum, L. montanum subsp. alyssoides, L. montanum var. alyssoides, L. montanum subsp. angustifolium, L. montanum var. angustifolium, L. tortum | Thlaspi campestre, Neolepia campestris |
Name authority | A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 10. (1849) | (Linnaeus) W. T. Aiton: in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew. 4: 88. (1812) |
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