Lepidium latipes

taxobox
name = "Lepidium latipes"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Brassicales
familia = Brassicaceae
genus = "Lepidium"
species = "L. latipes"
binomial = "Lepidium latipes"
binomial_authority = Hook.|

"Lepidium latipes" is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name San Diego pepperweed. It is native to California and Baja California, where it grows in alkaline soils in a number of habitat types. This is an annual herb producing a short, thick, hairy stem generally under 10 centimeters tall but sometimes taller. Leaves are linear in shape and several centimeters long. The plant produces a dense inflorescence of many tiny, hairy flowers with green petals, their sepals packed between them. The fruit is a cylindrical, oblong capsule about half a centimeter long.

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2240,2504,2525 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LELA3 USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Lepidium+latipes+var.+latipes Photo gallery - var. "latipes"]