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Wayside pepper grass
Lepidium pinnatifidum
Lepidium pinnatifidum is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known in English by the common name featherleaf pepperweed.
From the article Lepidium pinnatifidum on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Lepidium pinnatifidum is an annual or perennial herb growing a single erect stem up to 0.5 metres (1.6 ft) tall. The inflorescence is a raceme of tiny flowers made up mostly of millimeter-long sepals. There are usually no petals, but there occasionally appears a vestigial white petal. The fruit is a rounded, notched capsule only about 2 millimetres (0.08 in) long.
Range & habitat
The plant is native to Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. It is known elsewhere as an introduced species, particularly as an invasive species in California.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 77673.