| Lepidium densiflorum Schrad. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Lepidium apetalum, Lepidium ruderale | ||
| Description | Annual; stem puberulent; basal leaves oblanceolate, pinnatifid, the divisions toathed; cauline leaves entire or slightly toothed; racemes numerous, ascending; pedicels slightly flattened; petals lacking or shorter than calyx; silicles about 2-5 mm long, round-obovate to elliptic-obovate, glabrous; seeds lacking wing margin. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed. Described from North America (?). | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. Bourgeauanum (Thell.) C. L. Hitche. (L. Bourgeauanum Thell.) differs in having rather flat pedicels and silicles averaging 3-3.5 mm long. Both types occur within area of interest. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.