Lepidium alyssoides A.Gray

Mesa pepperwort (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Brassicaceae > Lepidium

Characteristics

Perennials or subshrubs; (woody base often aboveground); glabrous or minutely puberulent. Stems few to several from base, erect to ascending, branched throughout, (0.7-)1-4.8(-6.1) 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. 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. Racemes elongated in fruit; rachis puberulent or glabrous. Fruiting pedicels divaricate to horizontal, straight or recurved to somewhat sigmoid, (terete), 3.5-8(-11) × 0.2 mm, glabrous or puberulent adaxially. 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. 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. Seeds ovate, 1.5-1.8 (-2) × 0.9-1.2(-1.5) mm. 2n = 32.
Life form perennial
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Images

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Distribution

Lepidium alyssoides world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:286031-1
WFO ID wfo-0001218228
COL ID 6P9HQ
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Synonyms

Lepidium alyssoides Lepidium tortum Nasturtium alyssoides Lepidium montanum var. angustifolium Lepidium montanum var. alyssoides Lepidium montanum subsp. alyssoides Lepidium alyssoides var. minus Lepidium alyssoides var. polycarpum Lepidium montanum subsp. angustifolium Lepidium alyssoides var. junceum Lepidium alyssoides var. angustifolium Lepidium alyssoides var. alyssoides