Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Lepidium virginicum var. medium
Lepidium virginicum L. var. medium (Greene) C.L. Hitchc.
Intermediate Pepperweed
Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)
USDA Symbol: LEVIMUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Lepidium virginicum var. medium
Virginia Pepperweed
Brassicaceae
Location: 85 Campden Circle, front garden--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Adventitious in disturbed, alkaline soil. Few, scattered.
Description: Erect, single stalk (to 60 cm), annual/biennial, much branched, near glabrous. Infructances dense, elongated, corolla not present. Pedicels to 5 mm long, spreading, often to near horizontal. Silicles about 3 mm long x 2.5 mm wide, compressed, narrowly winged distally. Notch broad & shallow. Seed obovoid, narrowly winged, 1 x 2 mm. Cotyledons oblique.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 4, 1994
Specimen number: 606
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0892
Accession Date: Aug 23, 1994
Accession Number: 66
Annotations: SXFRB (In fruit)