Lepidium chalepense Linnaeus (Q3721)

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Lepidium chalepense is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Lepidium
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Lepidium chalepense Linnaeus
Lepidium chalepense is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Lepidium

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    taxon/id/Lepidium chalepense Linnaeus
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    Lepidium chalepense Linnaeus
    Lepidium chalepense
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    cranson rampant (French)
    lens-pod hoarycress (English)
    Chalapa hoarycress (English)
    lens-pod whitetop (English)
    Asian whitetop (English)
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    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
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    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
    also in South America (Argentina)
    Europe
    Flowering May–Jun.
    mountain slopes
    roadsides
    fields
    agricultural lands
    stream banks
    pastures
    waste areas
    Stems several from base, erect or decumbent basally, branched (several) distally, (0.8–) 2.1–6.6 (–9.2) dm.
    petiole 0.9–4.4 cm;
    blade obovate, spatulate, or ovate, (1.8–) 2.5–8.6 (–14) cm × 10–37 mm, margins subentire or dentate.
    Cauline leaves sessile;
    blade obovate to oblong or lanceolate to oblanceolate, (1.5–) 2.6–9.3 (–13.2) cm × (7–) 12–31 (–45) mm, base sagittate-amplexicaul or auriculate, margins dentate or entire, (surfaces pubescent or glabrous).
    Racemes (corymbose panicles), elongated in fruit;
    rachis glabrous or puberulent, trichomes cylindrical, straight or curved.
    Fruiting pedicels ascending to horizontal, straight, (terete), 5–16 (–19) × 0.2–0.3 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent adaxially.
    Flowers: sepals oblong to ovate, 1.7–3 × 1–1.6 mm;
    petals white, obovate, 3–5 × 1.2–2.4 mm, claw 1.2–2 mm;
    filaments 2–3.3 mm, (glabrous);
    anthers 0.5–0.6 mm.
    Fruits (indehiscent), obovoid to subglobose or obcompressed globose, 3.5–5.8 (–7) × (3.5–) 4–6.2 (–7) mm, apically not winged, apical notch absent;
    valves thin, smooth, often not veined, glabrous;
    style (0.8–) 1.2–2 (–2.3) mm.
    Seeds (dark reddish-brown), ovate, 1.5–2.3 × 1–1.3 mm. 2n = 48, 80, 128.