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Pepper Grass
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.''Lepidium''. Flora of North America. It includes familiar species such as , , and dittander. General s include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Flavum
''Lepidium flavum'' is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name yellow pepperweed. It is native to California, Nevada, and Baja California, where it grows in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. The species epithet ''flavum'' is Latin for yellow and indicates its flower colour.Sia Morhardt and Emil Morhardt Description ''Lepidium flavum'' is a short, mostly prostrate annual herb producing a branching stem up to about 40 centimeters tall when growing upright. The fleshy lobed or toothed leaves grow in a basal rosette at ground level and along the stem, the lowest and longest reaching a few centimeters long. The plant blooms in inflorescences of many small flowers, each with yellow petals just a few millimeters long and six stamen The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Apetalum
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.''Lepidium''. Flora of North America. It includes familiar species such as , , and dittander. General s include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwort. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Didymum
''Lepidium didymum'', the lesser swine-cress, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. Description ''Lepidium didymum'' is an annual or biennial herb with decumbent or ascending and glabrous green stems, up to long, radiating from a central position. The leaves are pinnate and alternate, and can reach a length of . It blooms between July and September. The flowers are inconspicuous, the four white petals very short or absent, with 2 (rarely 4), stamens and the fruits consist of two rounded valves, notched at the apex, with a very short style between.Gaby H. Schmelzer, Gabriella Harriet Schmelzer and Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (Editors) They are also wrinkled and contain orange or reddish brown seeds, that are 1–5 mm long. Taxonomy It was first described and published by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 'Mant. Pl.' (Mantissa Plantarum) on page 92 in 1767. The specific epithet ''didymum'', refers to the Greek word δίδυμα for 'twin' or 'in pairs', r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Dictyotum
''Lepidium dictyotum'' is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names alkali pepperweed and alkali pepperwort. It is native to the far western United States. It grows in dry saline and alkaline soils, such as dry lakebeds. Description ''Lepidium dictyotum'' is a hairy annual herb producing decumbent or spreading stems up to about 20 centimeters long. They are lined sparsely with small leaves divided into fingerlike lobes. The inflorescence is a mostly erect raceme of tiny flowers. Each flower is made up of millimeter long sepals and occasionally a white petal, although the petals are usually absent. The fruit is a dehiscent silique A silique or siliqua (plural ''siliques'' or ''siliquae'') is a type of fruit (seed capsule) having two fused carpels with the length being more than three times the width. When the length is less than three times the width of the dried fruit i ... 3 or 4 millimeters long divided into two valves, each containin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Desvauxii
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.''Lepidium''. Flora of North America. It includes familiar species such as , , and dittander. General s include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwort. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Densiflorum
''Lepidium densiflorum'' is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names common pepperweed and prairie peppergrass. It is a common and widespread plant in North America, where it grows in many habitats across Canada and the United States. Family Mustard Family – Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) Other names common peppergrass, elongate peppergrass, hairy-fruited peppergrass, large-fruited peppergrass, prairie peppergrass Description ''Lepidium densiflorum'' is an annual or biennial herb producing a short, erect, branching stem up to about 30 centimeters in height. Leaves grow in a basal rosette at the base of the stem and reach up to about 10 centimeters long; leaves higher up on the stem are smaller and less prominently lobed. The plant produces raceme inflorescences of tiny flowers with sepals each only about a millimeter long. There are usually no petals, though sometimes vestigial petals appear near the sepals. The fruit is a few millimeters long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Davisii
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.''Lepidium''. Flora of North America. It includes familiar species such as , , and dittander. General s include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwort. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Coronopus
''Lepidium coronopus'', (swine cress, creeping wart cress, or greater swine cress), is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family which is native to parts of Africa, western Asia and Europe, growing in shingle banks, wasteland or cultivated fields. Description ''Lepidium coronopus'' is a robust herb, grown as an annual, and rarely as a biennial.Richard Dickinson and France Royer It is a low, to short prostrate plant, with often several from base, stems that sprawl,Simon Harrap trail or spread, and very rarely ascending.Flora of North America Editorial Committee It can reach between tall, with the more or less hairless, and branched distally, stems reaching long. It has two types of leaves, basal and cauline (along the stem), the basal leaves are rosulate (form a rosette), with a petiole (leaf stalk) long. They are pinnatisect (having lobes with incisions that extend almost, or up to midrib), the lobes are dark green and strap like. The cauline leaves are shortly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Catapycnon
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.''Lepidium''. Flora of North America. It includes familiar species such as , , and dittander. General s include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwort. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Campestre
''Lepidium campestre'', the field pepperwort or field pepperweed or field cress, is usually a biennial with some form of annual plant in the Brassicaceae or mustard family, native to Europe, but commonly found in North America as an invasive weed. The most notable characteristic of field pepperweed is the raceme of flowers which forks off of the stem. These racemes are made up of first small white flowers and later green, flat and oval seedpods each about 6 mm long and 4 mm wide.Richard H. Uva, Joseph C. Neal and Joseph M. Ditomaso, ''Weeds of The Northeast'', (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), Pp. 176-177. Each seedpod contains two brown, 2.5 mm long seeds. The stem of field pepperweed comes out of a basal rosette of toothed leaves. The stem is covered in leaves, which are sessile, alternate and arrow-shaped. The entire plant is generally between 20 and 60 cm tall and covered in small hairs. Cultivation and uses Field pepperweed grows in disturb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Bonariense
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.''Lepidium''. Flora of North America. It includes familiar species such as , , and dittander. General s include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwort. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Biplicatum
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.''Lepidium''. Flora of North America. It includes familiar species such as , , and dittander. General s include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwort. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
