Common Name: MUSTARD FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub; sap pungent, watery. Leaf: generally simple, alternate; generally both basal, cauline; stipules 0. Inflorescence: generally raceme, generally not bracted. Flower: bisexual, generally radial; sepals 4, generally free; petals (0)4, forming a cross, generally white or yellow to purple; stamens generally 6 (2 or 4), 4 long, 2 short (3 pairs of unequal length); ovary 1, superior, generally 2-chambered with septum connecting 2 parietal placentas; style 1, stigma entire or 2-lobed. Fruit: capsule, generally 2-valved, "silique" (length >= 3 × width) or "silicle" (length < 3 × width), dehiscent by 2 valves or indehiscent, cylindric or flat parallel or perpendicular to septum, segmented or not. Seed: 1--many, in 1 or 2 rows per chamber, winged or wingless; embryo strongly curved. Genera In Family: +- 330 genera, 3780 species: worldwide, especially temperate. Note: Highest diversity in Mediterranean area, mountains of southwestern Asia, adjacent central Asia, western North America; some Brassica species are oil or vegetable crops; Arabidopsis thaliana used in experimental molecular biology; many species are ornamentals, weeds. Aurinia saxatilis (L.) Desvaux in cultivation only. Aubrieta occasional waif in central NCoR, Carrichtera annua (L.) DC. in SCo, Iberis sempervirens L., Iberis umbellata L. in PR, Teesdalia coronopifolia (Bergeret) Thell., Teesdalia nudicaulis (L.) W.T. Aiton in southern NCoRO, CCo. Cardaria, Coronopus moved to Lepidium; Caulostramina to Hesperidanthus; Guillenia to Caulanthus; Heterodraba to Athysanus; California taxa of Lesquerella to Physaria; Malcolmia africana to Strigosella. eFlora Treatment Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz, except as noted Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: PEPPERGRASS, PEPPERCRESS Habit: Annual to perennial herb (shrub); hairs 0 or simple. Leaf: basal rosetted or not, petioled, entire, dentate, to 1--3-pinnately lobed; cauline short-petioled to sessile, base occasionally lobed to clasping. Inflorescence: elongated or congested. Flower: sepals erect or spreading, oblong to ovate, base not sac-like; petals linear to obovate, white or yellow (pink or purple), occasionally reduced or 0; stamens 2, 4, or 6. Fruit: silicle, generally dehiscent, oblong to ovate, obcordate, or round (spectacle-shaped), flat perpendicular to septum (inflated), unsegmented. Seed: 2(4), gelatinous when wet; wing narrow or 0. Etymology: (Greek: little scale, from fruit) eFlora Treatment Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz Reference: Al-Shehbaz et al. 2002 Novon 12:5--11 Unabridged Reference: Hitchcock 1936 Madroño 3:265--300
Lepidium latifolium L.
NATURALIZED Habit: Perennial herb, rhizomed, glabrous or hairy. Stem: erect, (2)3.5--12(15) dm, branched distally. Leaf: basal not rosetted, (2)3.5--15(25) cm, elliptic-ovate to oblong, entire or serrate, leathery; mid-cauline sessile or short-petioled, (1)2--9(12) cm, 0.3--4.5 cm wide, oblong to lanceolate, entire or serrate, base not lobed. Inflorescence: panicle, +- elongated or not; rachis glabrous or puberulent, hairs cylindric. Flower: sepals 1--1.4 mm; petals 1.8--2.5 mm, 0.8--1.3 mm wide, obovate, white; stamens 6. Fruit: (1.6)1.8--2.4(2.7) mm, 1.3--1.8 mm wide, oblong-elliptic to broadly ovate or +- round, flat, wingless, notch 0 (0.1 mm); valves glabrous or soft-hairy, not veined; style 0.05--0.15 mm, exserted beyond notch; pedicel spreading to ascending, 2--5(6) mm, cylindric, glabrous or puberulent adaxially. Seed: 0.8--1.2 mm, oblong. Chromosomes: 2n=24. Ecology: Pastures, disturbed areas, fields, grassland, saline meadows, streambanks, sagebrush scrub, pinyon/juniper woodland, edge of marshes; Elevation: < 2500 m. Bioregional Distribution: CA (exc KR, D); Distribution Outside California: southern Canada, United States; native to Eurasia. Flowering Time: Jun--Sep Jepson eFlora Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz Reference: Al-Shehbaz et al. 2002 Novon 12:5--11 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Noxious Weed listed on the CDFA Weed Pest Ratings table View the CDFA Pest Rating page for Lepidium latifolium Weed listed by Cal-IPC Previous taxon: Lepidium lasiocarpum subsp. lasiocarpum Next taxon: Lepidium latipes
Botanical illustration including Lepidium latifolium
Citation for this treatment: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz 2012, Lepidium latifolium, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=30544, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.
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