heart-podded hoary cress

(tall whitetop)
Lepidium draba

Member of pepperweeds (genus Lepidium)
mustard family (family Brassicaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
white in flowering plants

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• perennial herb, rhizomed
• basal leaves not in a rosette, dentate to entire
• mid-cauline leaf bases clasping or lobed, dentate or entire
• inflorescence in a panicle, elongated or not
• petals 3–4 mm, white, stamens 6
• fruit 2.5–3.7 mm, cordate to ± reniform, flat; tip wingless, obtuse to tapered, no notch [photo]
• valve net-veined
• uncommon

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Chris’s observations: 8 (6 are research grade)

Locations:

• Calero CP: 6
• Coyote Lake / Harvey Bear Ranch CP
• Russian Ridge OSP

Months:

• Mar.: 2
• Apr.: 3
• May: 3

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Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora