Lepidium virginicum Linnaeus (Q3736)

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

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    Lepidium virginicum Linnaeus
    Lepidium virginicum
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    passerage de Virginie (French)
    poor-man's peppergrass (English)
    Virginia peppergrass (English)
    Virginia pepperweed (English)
    poor-man's pepper (English)
    lépidie de Virginie (French)
    Mexico
    in South America
    Europe
    s Africa
    Australia
    Stems simple from base, erect, branched distally, (0.6–) 1.5–5.5 (–7) dm.
    petiole 0.5–3.5 cm;
    blade obovate, spatulate, or oblanceolate, (1–) 2.5–10 (–15) cm × 5–30 (–50) mm, margins pinnatifid to lyrate or dentate.
    Cauline leaves shortly petiolate;
    blade oblanceolate or linear, 1–6 cm × (1–) 3–10 mm, base attenuate to subcuneate, not auriculate, margins serrate or entire.
    Racemes considerably elongated in fruit;
    rachis usually puberulent, rarely glabrous, trichomes curved, cylindrical.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending to nearly horizontal, straight or slightly recurved, (slender, terete or flattened), 2.5–4 (–6) × 0.15–0.4 mm, puberulent adaxially or, rarely, throughout or glabrous.
    Flowers: sepals oblong to ovate, (0.5–) 0.7–1 (–1.1) × 0.4–0.7 mm;
    petals (rarely rudimentary), white, spatulate to oblanceolate, 1–2 (–2.5) × 0.3–0.8 (–1) mm, claw undifferentiated or to 0.8 mm;
    stamens 2, median;
    filaments 0.6–1.2 mm;
    anthers 0.1–0.2 mm.
    (widest at middle), apically winged, apical notch 0.2–0.5 mm deep;
    valves thin, smooth, not veined, glabrous;
    style 0.1–0.2 mm, included in apical notch.
    (cotyledons accumbent or incumbent).