Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lepidium campestre
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
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Read more about Cow Cress at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lepidium campestre
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lepidium campestre
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Lepidium campestre
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-04-002:
Lepidium campestre FAMILY Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lepidium campestre
COMMON NAME:
Cow Cress, Field Pepperwort, Field Cress, Field Pepperweed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_leca5_001_lvd
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_207
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lepidium campestre
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lepidium campestre
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lepidium campestre
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Lepidium campestre
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-04-002:
Lepidium campestre
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lepidium campestre
3235
Forb
Winter annual
Habitat: Disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
Common in Carolina Mountains & NC Piedmont, uncommon in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal rosette
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Silicle
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p102
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p019
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p139
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p093
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p120
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p058
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