san diego pepperweed

Lepidium latipes

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, entire, dentate, or pinnately divided, early-deciduous
• mid-cauline leaves similar, smaller, base tapered
• no cauline leaf bases lobed or sagittate
• inflorescence compact, cylindric to head-like, elongated or not
• pedicel strongly flattened
• sepals 1.1–1.4 mm, persistent
• petals 1.9–3 mm, ± green, hairy abaxially, margin fringed, stamens 4
• fruit 5–7 mm, roundish, tip winged, notch 1.4–2.8 mm
• 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