San Diego Pepperweed

(Lepidium latipes)

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Description

Lepidium latipes is an annual herb producing a short, thick, hairy stem generally under 10 centimeters tall but sometimes taller. Leaves are linear in shape and several centimeters long. The plant produces a dense inflorescence of many tiny, hairy flowers with green petals, their sepals packed between them. The fruit is a cylindrical, oblong capsule about half a centimeter long.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Brassicales
Family:Brassicaceae
Genus:Lepidium
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