Lepidium

Lepidium
Lepidium flavum in Mojave Desert
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Lepidium L.

Lepidium is a genus of plants in the mustard family Brassicaceae. It includes about 175 species found worldwide, including cress and pepperweed; additional common names include peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort. Some species form tumbleweeds.^[1]

Species

• Lepidium africanum
• Lepidium amelum
• Lepidium biplicatum
• Lepidium bonariense - Peppercress
• Lepidium campestre - Field Pepperwort or Field Cress
• Lepidium catapycnon
• Lepidium densiflorum - Common Pepperweed
• Lepidium desvauxii - Bushy Peppercress
• Lepidium dictyotum
• Lepidium didymum
• Lepidium draba - Hoary Cress
• Lepidium drummondii
• Lepidium echinatum
• Lepidium ecuadoriense
• Lepidium englerianum
• Lepidium fasciculatum - Bundled Peppercress
• Lepidium flavum
• Lepidium flexicaule
• Lepidium foliosum - Leafy Peppercress
• Lepidium fremontii - Desert Pepperweed
• Lepidium genistoides
• Lepidium ginninderrense
• Lepidium graminifolium
• Lepidium howei-insulae
• Lepidium hypenantion

Lepidium latifolium

• Lepidium hyssopifolium
• Lepidium heterophyllum - Smith's Pepperwort
• Lepidium jaredii - Jared's Pepperweed
• Lepidium latifolium - Pepperweed or Dittander
• Lepidium latipes
• Lepidium lyratogynum
• Lepidium merrallii
• Lepidium meyenii - Maca
• Lepidium monoplocoides - Winged Peppercress
• Lepidium montanum - Western Pepperweed, Mountain Pepperweed
• Lepidium nitidum - Shining Pepperweed
• Lepidium oblongum
• Lepidium oxycarpum - Forked Pepperweed
• Lepidium oxytrichum
• Lepidium papillosum - Warty Peppercress
• Lepidium pedicellosum
• Lepidium peregrinum
• Lepidium perfoliatum
• Lepidium phlebopetalum
• Lepidium pholidogynum
• Lepidium pinnatifidum
• Lepidium platypetalum - Slender Peppercress

Lepidium ruderale

• Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium
• Lepidium pseudoruderale
• Lepidium pseudotasmanicum
• Lepidium puberulum
• Lepidium quitense
• Lepidium rotundum - Veined Peppercress
• Lepidium ruderale - Narrow-leaved Pepperwort
• Lepidium oleraceum - Cook's Scurvy grass (near extinct)
• Lepidium sagittulatum
• Lepidium scandens
• Lepidium squamatum
• Lepidium strictum
• Lepidium sativum - Garden Cress
• Lepidium thurberi - Thurber's Peppergrass or Thurber's Pepperweed
• Lepidium virginicum - Virginian Peppercress
• Lepidium xylodes

References

• Everitt, J.H.; Lonard, R.L., Little, C.R. (2007). Weeds in South Texas and Northern Mexico. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press.  ISBN 0-89672-614-2
• "Lepidium". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=LEPIDIUM. Retrieved 2009-02-30. 

External links

• "Inland Lepidium recovery plan 2000-2010" (PDF). Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand. 2000. http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/TSRP32.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-04. 
• D.A. Norton; P.J. de Lange (1999). "Coastal Cresses (Nau) Recovery Plan" (PDF). Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand. http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/tsrp26.pdf. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 

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