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Lepidium

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Kingdom
  
Scientific name
  
Lepidium

Rank
  
Genus

Order
  
Higher classification
  
Cabbage family

Lepidium Lepidium virginicum poorman39s pepperweed Go Botany

Lower classifications
  
Maca, Garden cress, Lepidium virginicum, Lepidium latifolium, Lepidium draba

Time lapse video of plants growing lepidium sativum hd


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. It includes familiar species such as garden cress, maca, and dittander. General common names include peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort. Some species form tumbleweeds.

Contents

Lepidium Lepidium ruderale Wikipedia

Perennial pepperweed identification of the wisconsin invasive species lepidium latifolium


Diversity

There are about 175 to 220 species in the genus.

Species include:

Lepidium Lepidium sativum garden pepperweed Go Botany

  • Lepidium africanum
  • Lepidium amelum
  • Lepidium armoracia Fisch. & C.A. Mey. 1843
  • Lepidium apetalum Willd. - du xing cai
  • Lepidium arbuscula
  • Lepidium banksii
  • Lepidium barnebyanum
  • Lepidium biplicatum
  • Lepidium bonariense - peppercress
  • Lepidium campestre - field pepperwort, field cress
  • Lepidium catapycnon

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  • Lepidium densiflorum - common pepperweed
  • Lepidium desvauxii - bushy peppercress
  • Lepidium dictyotum
  • Lepidium didymum
  • Lepidium draba - hoary cress
  • Lepidium drummondii
  • Lepidium echinatum
  • Lepidium ecuadoriense
  • Lepidium englerianum
  • Lepidium fasciculatum - bundled peppercress
  • Lepidium flavum
  • Lepidium flexicaule
  • Lepidium foliosum - leafy peppercress
  • Lepidium fremontii - desert pepperweed
  • Lepidium genistoides
  • Lepidium ginninderrense
  • Lepidium graminifolium
  • Lepidium howei-insulae - mustard & cress
  • Lepidium hypenantion
  • Lepidium hyssopifolium
  • Lepidium heterophyllum - Smith's pepperwort
  • Lepidium jaredii - Jared's pepperweed
  • Lepidium lasiocarpum
  • Lepidium latifolium - pepperweed, dittander
  • Lepidium latipes
  • Lepidium lyratogynum
  • Lepidium merrallii
  • Lepidium meyenii (syn. L. peruvianum) - maca
  • Lepidium monoplocoides - winged peppercress
  • Lepidium montanum - western pepperweed, mountain pepperweed
  • Lepidium nanum - dwarf pepperweed
  • Lepidium nesophilum
  • Lepidium nitidum - shining pepperweed
  • Lepidium oblongum
  • Lepidium oxycarpum - forked pepperweed
  • Lepidium oxytrichum
  • Lepidium papilliferum - slickspot peppergrass
  • Lepidium papillosum - warty peppercress
  • Lepidium pedicellosum
  • Lepidium peregrinum
  • Lepidium perfoliatum
  • Lepidium peruvianum
  • Lepidium phlebopetalum
  • Lepidium pholidogynum
  • Lepidium pinnatifidum
  • Lepidium platypetalum - slender peppercress
  • Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium
  • Lepidium pseudoruderale
  • Lepidium pseudotasmanicum
  • Lepidium puberulum
  • Lepidium quitense
  • Lepidium rotundum - veined peppercress
  • Lepidium ruderale - narrow-leaved pepperwort
  • Lepidium oleraceum - Cook's scurvy grass (near extinct)
  • Lepidium sagittulatum
  • Lepidium scandens
  • Lepidium squamatum
  • Lepidium strictum
  • Lepidium sativum - garden cress
  • Lepidium thurberi - Thurber's peppergrass, Thurber's pepperweed
  • Lepidium virginicum - Virginian peppercress
  • Lepidium xylodes
  • References

    Lepidium Wikipedia


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