Lepidium schinzii Thell.

Herb 15-45 cm high with ascending branches. Stem and branches densely retrorse-puberulous with subclavate papillae, eventually glabrescent, only rarely plants completely glabrous. Basal leaves 4-10 cm long, rosulate, petiolate, pinnatipartite with 6-11 lobes, each lobe variously lobed in rounded lobules of different sizes; gradually smaller in size and less intricately lobed, lower stem leaves sessile, more or less clasping, pinnately lobed with short, blunt lobes; upper leaves cuneate, bluntly toothed or entire; puberulous with triangular or clavate papillae, sometimes only the upper surface, eventually glabrescent. Racemes terminal, 3-15 cm long in fruit, dense, the rhachis retrorsely papillose, eventually glabrescent. Pedicels glabrous or with a few papillae on the ± swollen base; in fruit 1.5-3(-4) mm long, appressed-erect. Sepals 0.6-0.8 mm long, oblong, green or tinged purple, margin membranous, subpersistent. Petals absent or 0.2-0.4 mm long, linear. Stamens 2; filaments subulate, thickened at the base. Nectaries filiform, 0.3-0.5 mm long, longer than or equal to the petals. Siliculae 1.6-2.7 x 1.2-1.8 mm, elliptic to ovate-oblong, or very broadly ovate, very shallowly emarginate, the style short with just the stigma projecting, or included in the sinus. Seeds 1-1.2 x 0.5-0.7 mm, light brown.

It is a subtropical plant.

The leaves are used to give flavour to other foods. The leaves are also dried for later use.