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Lepidium lasiocarpum wrightii

Family: Brassicaceae

Plant Description: Annual to 30 cm or higher with toothed or entire stem leaves 1-6 cm long. Flowers in racemes. Petals white, scarcely more than 1 mm long, sometimes lacking.

Plant Trivia:

Field Identification:

Occurrence: Widely scattered on deep sands along the coat or inland

Bloom Period: February-May

Plant Use:

Key to the species of Lepidium:

1. Pedicels flattened; 2-3 times wider than thick…………….L. lasoiocarpum

Pedicels round or slightly flattened………………………………………………………….2

2. Stems conspicuously hairy……………………………………………………..L. austrinum

Stems inconspicuously hairy or glabrous………………………………………………..3

3. Petals equaling or surpassing the sepals……………………………..L. virginicum

Petals shorter than sepals or lacking…………………………………………………………4

4. Basal leaves usually pinnatifid; petals lacking…………………………L. ruderale

Basal leaves pinnatifid or serrate…………………………………………L. densiflorum