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Lepidium 
Lepidium flavum in Mojave Desert Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Brassicales Family: Brassicaceae Genus: Lepidium
L.Lepidium is a genus of plants in the mustard family Brassicaceae. It includes about 175 species found worldwide, including cress and pepperweed; additional common names include peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort. Some species form tumbleweeds.[1]
Species
- Lepidium africanum
- Lepidium amelum
- Lepidium arbuscula
- Lepidium barnebyanum
- Lepidium biplicatum
- Lepidium bonariense - Peppercress
- Lepidium campestre - Field Pepperwort or Field Cress
- Lepidium catapycnon
- 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
- Lepidium hypenantion
Lepidium latifolium
- Lepidium hyssopifolium
- Lepidium heterophyllum - Smith's Pepperwort
- Lepidium jaredii - Jared's Pepperweed
- Lepidium latifolium - Pepperweed or Dittander
- Lepidium latipes
- Lepidium lyratogynum
- Lepidium merrallii
- Lepidium meyenii - Maca
- Lepidium monoplocoides - Winged Peppercress
- Lepidium montanum - Western Pepperweed, Mountain Pepperweed
- 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 phlebopetalum
- Lepidium pholidogynum
- Lepidium pinnatifidum
- Lepidium platypetalum - Slender Peppercress
Lepidium ruderale- 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 or Thurber's Pepperweed
- Lepidium virginicum - Virginian Peppercress
- Lepidium xylodes
References
- ^ Herbert Waldron Faulkner (1917). The Mysteries of the Flowers. Frederick A. Stokes company. p. 238. page 210
- Everitt, J.H.; Lonard, R.L., Little, C.R. (2007). Weeds in South Texas and Northern Mexico. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 0-89672-614-2
- "Lepidium". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=LEPIDIUM. Retrieved 2009-02-30.
External links
- "Inland Lepidium recovery plan 2000-2010" (PDF). Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand. 2000. http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/TSRP32.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
- D.A. Norton; P.J. de Lange (1999). "Coastal Cresses (Nau) Recovery Plan" (PDF). Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand. http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/tsrp26.pdf. Retrieved 2007-04-19.
- Species Profile- Hairy Whitetop (Lepidium appelianum), National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library. Lists general information and resources for Hairy Whitetop.
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