wayside pepper grass

Lepidium pinnatifidum

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, dentate or pinnately lobed, early-deciduous
• mid-cauline lines 1–3.3 mm, base tapered
• no cauline leaf bases lobed or sagittate
• inflorescence in a panicle, elongated
• pedicel cylindric
• petals 0.4–0.6 mm, white, stamens 4
• fruit 1.8–2 mm, roundish, flat, tip wingless, notch to 0.1 mm
• valves not veined
• very rare

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Chris’s observations: none

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

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora