Lepidium alyssoides |
Lepidium huberi |
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mesa pepperwort |
Huber's pepperweed |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs; (woody base often aboveground); glabrous or minutely puberulent. | Perennials or subshrubs; (caudex to 2 cm diam., woody base aboveground); puberulent. |
Stems | few to several from base, erect to ascending, branched throughout, (0.7–)1–4.8(–6.1) dm. |
several from base, erect to ascending, branched distally, (1.8–)3–6(–7) 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. |
not rosulate; petiole 1–3 cm; blade ovate to lanceolate, pinnatifid, 1–4.5 cm × 8–25 mm, margins (of lobes) entire. |
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. |
shortly petiolate or sessile; blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, 1.8–3.5 cm × 3–10 mm (smaller distally), base cuneate, not auriculate, margins entire or coarsely serrate. |
Racemes | elongated in fruit; rachis puberulent or glabrous. |
(subcorymbose panicles), individual racemes slightly elongated; rachis puberulent, trichomes 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 suborbicular to broadly ovate, 1.2–2 × 1.2–1.5 mm; petals white, suborbicular to obovate, 2–3.2 × 1.5–2 mm, claw 0.5–1 mm; stamens 6; filaments 1.4–1.7 mm, (glabrous); anthers 0.4–0.5 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate to horizontal, straight or recurved to somewhat sigmoid, (terete), 3.5–8(–11) × 0.2 mm, glabrous or puberulent adaxially. |
divaricate to horizontal, straight or slightly curved, (not winged), 4–7 × 0.2 mm, puberulent throughout. |
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. |
often broadly obovate, 2–3.3 × 1.8–2.5 mm, apically winged, apical notch 0.1–0.2 mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined, glabrous; style 0.2–0.8 mm, exserted beyond apical notch. |
Seeds | ovate, 1.5–1.8(–2) × 0.9–1.2(–1.5) mm. |
ovate, 1.4–1.6 × 0.8–1 mm. |
2n | = 32. |
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Lepidium alyssoides |
Lepidium huberi |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Pinyon-juniper or sagebrush communities, prairies, grasslands, sandstone outcrops, gypsum flats, sand dunes, dry flats and river bottoms, gravelly roadsides | Pine and sagebrush communities |
Elevation | 1200-2800 m (3900-9200 ft) | 1500-3000 m (4900-9800 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; NV; TX; UT; WY; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí)
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CO; UT |
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.) |
Of conservation concern. Lepidium huberi is known in Colorado from Rio Blanco County and in Utah from Uintah County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 575. | FNA vol. 7, p. 583. |
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 | |
Name authority | A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 10. (1849) | S. L. Welsh & Goodrich: Great Basin Naturalist 55: 359, fig. 1. (1995) |
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