net pepper grass

Lepidium acutidens

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, linear or pinnately divided, early-deciduous
• mid-cauline leaves linear, base tapered
• no cauline leaf bases lobed or sagittate
• inflorescence unknown [not elongated?]
• pedicel strongly flattened, appressed, 3–4.2 mm
• sepals 0.7–1.1 mm, not persistent
• petals 0, stamens 4
• fruit 4–6 mm, roundish, flat, tip winged, notch 1–2 mm, V-shaped
• valve strongly net-veined
• rare

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Chris’s observations: none

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

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora