lesser swine-cress

Lepidium didymum

Member of pepperweeds (genus Lepidium)
mustard family (family Brassicaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)

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• annual
• basal leaves not in a rosette, 1–2-pinnately divided, lobes entire to lobed
• mid-cauline leaves gradually reduced and less divided distally, lobes entire to serrate
• no cauline leaf bases lobed or sagittate
• inflorescence elongated
• petals 0.4–0.5 mm, white, stamens 2
• fruit 1.3–1.7 mm, spectacle-shaped, flat, wingless, notch 0.2–0.4 mm
• valve tubercled, strongly veined
• all others are not tubercled or ridged
• uncommon

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Chris’s observations: none

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

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora