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Lepidium austrinum
Small
Family:
Brassicaceae
Southern Pepperwort
[
Lepidium austrinum var. orbiculare
,
more
Lepidium lasiocarpum var. orbiculare
(Thell.) C.L.Hitchc.
]
Steve Hurst
FNA
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz, John F. Gaskin in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Annuals or biennials;
often densely hirsute, (trichomes cylindrical).
Stems
often simple from base, erect, branched distally, (1.5-)2-6.7(-9.4) dm.
Basal leaves
(later withered); rosulate; petiole (0.7-) 1.5-4.5 cm; blade pinnatifid, 2-8.3 cm × 9-26 mm, margins (of lobes) entire or dentate.
Cauline leaves
shortly petiolate; blade oblanceolate to nearly linear, 1-4.5 (-6.2) cm × 3-10(-17) mm, base attenuate to cuneate, not auriculate, margins entire or dentate.
Racemes
much-elongated in fruit; rachis pubescent, trichomes curved, with fewer and longer, straight ones.
Fruiting pedicels
usually divaricate, rarely horizontal, straight or slightly recurved, (terete), (2.5-)3-4.1(-4.7) × 0.2 mm, puberulent adaxially.
Flowers:
sepals oblong, 0.8-1 × 0.2-0.4 mm; petals (sometimes absent), white, oblanceolate, 0.4-1.6 × 0.1-0.8 mm, claw absent; stamens 2, median; filaments 0.8-1 mm; anthers 0.1-0.2 mm.
Fruits
elliptic-obovate to obovate-orbicular, 2.4-3.2 × 1.8-2.5 mm, apically winged, apical notch 0.2-0.5 mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined, sparsely puberulent, (trichomes often antrorsely appressed, sometimes restricted to margin); style 0.05-0.1 mm, included in apical notch.
Seeds
ovate, 1.4-1.6 × 0.7-0.9 mm.
Flowering Mar-Jun. Disturbed grounds, railroad tracks and embankments, fields, knolls, stream banks, waste areas, open banks, roadsides, sandy terraces; Kans., La., Miss., N.Mex., Okla., Tex.; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí).
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This project made possible by National Science Foundation Awards
1601697
,
1600981
,
1601393
,
1600976
,
1601429
,
1601101
,
1601503
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