Common (vernacular) names applied to California vascular plants
compiled by Elizabeth Painter
up to date as of May 1, 2016
Common names (also referred to as vernacular names) are applied differently at different times and places by different users. This list is compiled from many sources and is intended to be as comprehensive as possible. It is not intended to indicate which common name is correct or preferred. Please send comments about this page to Elizabeth Painter (beth.painter.48@gmail.com).
| Taxon | Lepidium nitidum |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Brassicaceae |
| Family common name(s) | crucifer; cruciferae; cruciform; mustard; mustards; cabbage; cress; cresses; brassica |
| Genus common name(s) | lepidium |
| Species common name(s) | shining pepperwort; shining peppergrass; shining pepper-grass; shining pepper grass; shining pepperweed; tongue pepperweed; threadleaf peppergrass |
| | | Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | Howell's pepper-grass [var. howellii]; Howell's pepperweed [var. howellii]; Howell pepper-grass [var. howellii]; Howell pepperweed [var. howellii]; Oregon peppergrass [var. oreganum] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | hairy peppergrass, hairy pepper-grass, common peppergrass, common pepper-grass, common pepperweed are applied to multiple Lepidium taxa; peppercress, pepper-cress, pepper cress, pepper-weed, pepperweed, pepper weed are applied to multiple Brassicaceae taxa; whitetop, white-top, white top, whiteweed, white-weed, white weed, pepperwort, pepper-plant, pepperplant, pepper plant, pepper-grass, peppergrass, pepper grass, wild tongue-grass, wild tonguegrass, wild tongue grass, tongue-grass, tonguegrass, tongue grass are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| | | Notes | Howell is a proper name, so upper case preferable; Howells is an error |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | var. howellii C.L. Hitchc.; var. nitidum; var. oreganum (Greene) C.L. Hitchc. |
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