Lepidium chalepense L.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennials; (rhizomatous); densely hirsute to glabrate or glabrous. Stems several from base, erect or decumbent basally, branched (several) distally, (0.8-)2.1-6.6(-9.2) dm. Basal leaves (early withered); not rosulate; petiole 0.9-4.4 cm; blade obovate, spatulate, or ovate, (1.8-) 2.5-8.6(-14) cm × 10-37 mm, margins subentire or dentate. Cauline leaves sessile; blade obovate to oblong or lanceolate to oblanceolate, (1.5-)2.6-9.3(-13.2) cm × (7-)12-31(-45) mm, base sagittate-amplexicaul or auriculate, margins dentate or entire, (surfaces pubescent or glabrous). Racemes (corymbose panicles), elongated in fruit; rachis glabrous or puberulent, trichomes cylindrical, straight or curved. Fruiting pedicels ascending to horizontal, straight, (terete), 5-16(-19) × 0.2-0.3 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent adaxially. Flowers: sepals oblong to ovate, 1.7-3 × 1-1.6 mm; petals white, obovate, 3-5 × 1.2-2.4 mm, claw 1.2-2 mm; stamens 6; filaments 2-3.3 mm, (glabrous); anthers 0.5-0.6 mm. Fruits (indehiscent), obovoid to subglobose or obcompressed globose, 3.5-5.8(-7) × (3.5-)4-6.2 (-7) mm, apically not winged, apical notch absent; valves thin, smooth, often not veined, glabrous; style (0.8-) 1.2-2(-2.3) mm. Seeds (dark reddish brown), ovate, 1.5-2.3 × 1-1.3 mm. 2n = 48, 80, 128.
Life form perennial
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.5
Root system creeping-root
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Light -
Soil humidity 1-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

Usage

Uses animal food food
Edible seeds
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Lepidium chalepense world distribution map, present in Canada and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:286101-1
WFO ID wfo-0000358289
COL ID 6P8YX
BDTFX ID 38552
INPN ID 105669
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Synonyms

Lepidium chalepense Lepidium boissieri Lepidium repens Nasturtium propinquum Nasturtium repens Cardaria chalepensis Cardaria boissieri Cardaria fenestrata Cardaria macrocarpa Cardaria propinqua Cardaria repens Hymenophysa fenestrata Hymenophysa macrocarpa Lepidium propinquum Hymenophysa persica Physolepidion repens Thlaspi chalepense Cardaria draba var. repens Nasturtium chalepense