Lepidium didymum |
Lepidium dictyotum |
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lesser pepper-grass, lesser swine-cress, lesser wart-cress |
alkali pepper-weed, alkali peppergrass, alkali pepperwort, net pepper grass, veiny pepper-grass |
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Habit | Annuals; (fetid); glabrous or pilose. | Annuals; hirsute. |
Stems | few to several from base, erect to ascending or decumbent, branched distally, 1–4.5(–7) dm. |
few to several from base, erect to ascending, or (outer ones) decumbent, unbranched, (0.15–)0.3–1.3(–2.1) dm. |
Basal leaves | (soon withered); not rosulate; petiole 0.5–4(–6) cm; blade 1- or 2-pinnatisect, 1–6(–8) cm, margins (of lobes) entire or dentate (sometimes deeply lobed). |
(soon withered); not rosulate; petiole 0.5–2 cm; blade pinnatifid to pinnatisect (lobes linear to narrowly oblong), (1.5–)2.2–5.7(–7) cm × (0.5–)1–2(–3) mm, margins entire. |
Cauline leaves | shortly petiolate to subsessile; blade similar to basal, smaller and less divided distally, lobes lanceolate to oblong or elliptic, 1.5–3.5(–4.5) cm ×5–12 mm, base not auriculate, margins (of lobes) entire, serrate, or incised. |
sessile; blade usually linear, rarely with linear lobes, 1–5 cm × 0.5–2 mm, base attenuate, not auriculate, margins entire. |
Racemes | elongated in fruit; rachis glabrous or pubescent, trichomes straight, cylindrical. |
elongated, (dense) in fruit; rachis hirsute, trichomes straight, cylindrical. |
Flowers | sepals (tardily deciduous), ovate, 0.5–0.7(–0.9) mm; petals white, elliptic to linear, 0.4–0.5 × ca. 0.1 mm, claw absent; stamens 2, median; filaments 0.3–0.6 mm; anthers 0.1–0.2 mm. |
sepals oblong to ovate, 0.7–1.1 × 0.2–0.6 mm; petals absent; stamens 4, median; filaments 0.5–1 mm; anthers ca. 0.1 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate to horizontal, straight slightly recurved, (terete), 1.4–2.5(–4) × 0.15–2 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent adaxially. |
erect to slightly ascending, straight and appressed to rachis or distally slightly recurved, (strongly flattened), (1.6–)1.9–2.5(–3) × 0.4–0.8 mm (width proximal to apex), usually hirsute or, rarely, only adaxially. |
Fruits | schizocarpic, didymous, 1.3–1.7 × 2–2.5 mm, apically not winged, apical notch 0.2–0.4 mm deep; valves thick, rugose, strongly veined, glabrous; style absent or obsolete, included in apical notch. |
ovate, 2.5–3.5 × 2–2.8 mm, apically winged, apical notch (closed, often U-shaped), 0.5–0.7(–0.8) mm deep; valves thin, smooth, strongly reticulate-veined, usually hirsute, rarely glabrous; style absent or obsolete, included in apical notch. |
Seeds | ovate, 1–1.2 × 0.7–0.8 mm. |
ovate, 1.2–1.8 × 0.8–1.2 mm. |
2n | = 32. |
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Lepidium didymum |
Lepidium dictyotum |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul. | Flowering Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Roadsides, waste areas, lawns, pastures, fields, gardens, disturbed areas | Margins of playas, saline areas, meadows, gypsum hills, dried pools, alkaline and clay flats and sinks, near hot springs, roadsides, borders of springs and ponds, sandy flats |
Elevation | 0-1000 m (0-3300 ft) | 0-1600 m (0-5200 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; CT; FL; GA; LA; MA; MD; ME; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; BC; NB; NF; NS; QC; South America [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico (Sinaloa), Central America (Honduras), Europe, Asia, s Africa, Australia]
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CA; ID; NV; OR; UT; WA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 580. | FNA vol. 7, p. 580. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Lepidieae > Lepidium | Brassicaceae > tribe Lepidieae > Lepidium |
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Synonyms | Carara didyma, Coronopus didymus, Senebiera didyma, Senebiera incisa, Senebiera pinnatifida | L. acutidens var. microcarpum, L. dictyotum var. macrocarpum, Nasturtium dictyotum |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 2: 433. (1767): Mant Pl. 1: 92. (1767) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 329. (1868) |
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