Lepidium oxycarpum Torrey & A. Gray (Q3731)

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Lepidium oxycarpum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Lepidium
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Lepidium oxycarpum Torrey & A. Gray
Lepidium oxycarpum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Lepidium

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    taxon/id/Lepidium oxycarpum Torrey & A. Gray
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    Lepidium oxycarpum Torrey & A. Gray
    Lepidium oxycarpum
    Torrey & A. Gray
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    forked peppergrass (English)
    sharp-pod peppergrass (English)
    sharp-fruit peppergrass (English)
    lépidie à fruits pointus (French)
    1 reference
    Straley, G.B., D.V. Meidinger & G.W. Douglas. 1989-1994. The Vascular plants of British Columbia. BC. Ministry of Forests, Victoria. 4 vols.
    Flowering Mar–May.
    borders
    vernal pools
    grassy fields
    roadsides ditches
    margins
    salt marshes
    Stems several from base, usually erect to ascending, rarely decumbent, branched, 0.4–1.5 (–2) dm.
    petiole 0.5–1.5 (–2) cm;
    blade margins entire or pinnatifid (lobes 2–5 pairs, linear to filiform), 1.5–5 cm × 0.5–2 mm.
    Cauline leaves petiolate;
    blade linear, 0.1–0.3 cm × 0.5–2 mm, base attenuate, not auriculate, margins entire.
    Racemes considerably elongated, (lax) in fruit;
    rachis glabrous or puberulent, trichomes straight, cylindrical.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate to horizontal or descending, usually recurved, rarely straight, (terete or slightly flattened), 2–4 (–6) × 0.2–0.3 mm, glabrous or puberulent adaxially.
    Flowers: sepals oblong, 0.6–0.8 × 0.4–0.5 mm;
    stamens 4, median;
    filaments 0.6–0.7;
    anthers ca. 0.1 mm.
    Fruit ovate, 2.4–3.6 × 1.8–2.5 mm, apically winged, apical notch (V-shaped), 0.3–0.8 mm deep;
    valves thin, smooth, strongly reticulate-veined, glabrous;
    style obsolete or to 0.1 mm, included in apical notch.
    Seeds oblong, 1.4–1.8 × 0.8–0.9 mm.