Lepidium eastwoodiae |
Lepidium ruderale |
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mesa pepperwort |
narrow-leaf pepper-grass, roadside pepper-grass, roadside pepperweed, stinking pepper-weed |
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Habit | Annuals, biennials, or perennials; (base woody); glabrous or pubescent. | Annuals or biennials; (fetid); puberulent (trichomes cylindrical). |
Stems | simple from base, erect, branched distally, (3.5–)4.5–16(–18) dm. |
simple from base, erect ascending, branched (several) distally, (0.5–)1–3.5(–5.5) dm. |
Basal leaves | (soon deciduous), not rosulate; petiole (1–)2–5.5(–7.5) cm; blade pinnatifid, (2–)3–6.8(–9) cm × 10–30 mm, margins (of lobes) dentate to serrate. |
rosulate; petiole 1–3.2(–5.3) cm; blade (1- or) 2- or 3-pinnatisect (lobes oblong), (1.5–)3–5(–7.2) cm, margins (of lobes) usually entire, rarely dentate. |
Cauline leaves | shortly petiolate or sessile; blade narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, 3–7 cm × (2.5–)4–10mm (smaller distally), base attenuate to cuneate, not auriculate, margins usually entire, rarely dentate. |
sessile; blade linear, (0.4–)1–2(–3) cm × 0.5–2.5(–3.5) mm, base cuneate, not auriculate, margins entire. |
Racemes | elongated in fruit; rachis puberulent, trichomes straight or curved. |
considerably elongated in fruit; rachis puberulent, trichomes straight, cylindrical. |
Flowers | sepals suborbicular to oblong, 0.8–1.5 × 0.7–1.2 mm; petals white, suborbicular, 2.2–3.5(4) × 1.5–2.5 mm, claw 0.7–1.5 mm; stamens 6; filaments 1.5–2.5 mm, (glabrous); anthers 0.3–0.4 mm. |
sepals oblong, 0.5–0.9(–1) × 0.2–0.4 mm; petals (absent or rudimentary), white, linear, 0.2–0.5 × 0.1 mm, claw absent; stamens 2, median; filaments 0.7–0.8 mm; anthers 0.1–0.2 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending to horizontal, usually slightly recurved or somewhat sigmoid, rarely straight, (not winged), (3–)3.5–7.5(–8) × 0.2–0.3 mm, puberulent adaxially. |
divaricate to horizontal, straight, (terete), (1.5–)2–4(–5) × 0.1–0.15 mm, puberulent. |
Fruits | broadly ovate, 2–3.5(–4) × 1.8–2.6(–3) mm, apically winged, apical notch 0.1–0.2mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined, glabrous; style (0.2–)0.3–0.6(–0.7) mm, exserted beyond apical notch. |
elliptic, (1.5–)1.8–2.5(–3) × 1.5–2(–2.3) mm, apically winged, apical notch 0.1–0.2 mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined, glabrous; style obsolete or to 0.1 mm, included in apical notch. |
Seeds | (dark brown), ovate, 1.4–1.8 × 0.8–1.1 mm. |
oblong to ovate-oblong, 1–1.5 × 0.6–0.8 mm. |
2n | = 16, 32. |
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Lepidium eastwoodiae |
Lepidium ruderale |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Pinyon-juniper, sagebrush, or mixed desert shrub communities | Fields, pastures, waste places, roadsides, gardens |
Elevation | 900-2200 m (3000-7200 ft) | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; UT
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AL; AR; CA; DE; FL; IN; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; NC; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; TN; TX; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; SK; Eurasia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America, Australia]
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Discussion | C. L. Hitchcock (1936) and R. C. Rollins (1993) reduced Lepidium eastwoodiae to a variety of L. montanum and L. alyssoides, respectively. However, the differences in morphology and flowering periods support its recognition as an independent species. We have not examined the holotype of Lepidium moabense and follow N. H. Holmgren (2005b) in reducing it to synonymy of L. eastwoodiae. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 581. | FNA vol. 7, p. 592. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Lepidieae > Lepidium | Brassicaceae > tribe Lepidieae > Lepidium |
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Synonyms | L. alyssoides var. eastwoodiae, L. moabense, L. montanum var. eastwoodiae | L. texanum, L. virginicum subsp. texanum |
Name authority | Wooton: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 258. (1898) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 645. (1753) |
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