Lepidium virginicum L.

BRASSICACEAE

- Mustard family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Lepidium virginicum L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 645 (1753)
Rank: species

Images of Lepidium virginicum

Common names

U.S. name: Virginia pepperweed

English name: least pepperwort

English name: peppergrass

Italian name: Lepidio della Virginia

German name: virginische Kresse

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual, Biennial, Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Lepidium virginicum L. var. medium (Greene) C.L. Hitchc.
2) Lepidium virginicum L. var. menziesii (DC.) C.L. Hitchc.
3) Lepidium virginicum L. var. pubescens (Greene) Thell.
4) Lepidium virginicum L. var. robinsonii (Thell.) C.L. Hitchc.
5) Lepidium virginicum L. var. typicum C.L. Hitchc.
6) Lepidium virginicum L. var. virginicum

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Capparales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Lepidium
Species:

Page counter: 1314 ( AVG: 222.3 / 291.376 )

Gallery:

Lepidium virginicum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Cavalese, segheria presso la cascata., TN, Trentino Alto-Adige, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lepidium virginicum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Rive, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lepidium virginicum
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Lepidium virginicum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Tarcento, ai margini dell'abitato., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lepidium virginicum
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Lepidium virginicum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lepidium virginicum
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Lepidium virginicum
Habit at Kihei, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Lepidium virginicum
Leaves flowers and fruit with Laysan albatross at Along coast east of Bulky Dump Sand Island, Midway... - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Lepidium virginicum
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Lepidium virginicum
Seedheads at Kihei, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Lepidium virginicum
Young plants at Kihei, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Lepidium virginicum
Habit Kim and Laysan albatross chicks at Charlie barracks Sand Island, Midway Atoll - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Lepidium virginicum
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Lepidium virginicum
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Lepidium virginicum
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Lepidium virginicum
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Lepidium virginicum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Lepidium virginicum
Credit: Photo by L.R.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), USA+ (PR, VI), CAN (BC, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC)

Distributional map for Lepidium virginicum L.
Map for Lepidium virginicum L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Lepidium virginicum L. var. typicum C.L. Hitchc. [175]
2) Lepidoma demissum (Rutstr.) M. Choisy [157]
3) Lepidospartum squamatum (A. Gray) A. Gray var. palmeri (A. Gray) L.C. Wheeler [156]
4) Lepidotis alopecuroides (L.) Rothm. [115]
5) Lepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort. [862]
6) Lepraria arctica (Lynge) Wetmore [130]
7) Lepraria finkii (de Lesd.) R.C. Harris [143]
8) Leproloma angardianum (Ovstedal) J.R. Laundon [234]
9) Leptilon bonariense (L.) Small [138]
10) Leptochilus alienus (Sw.) C. Chr. [114]

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