| Accepted name: |
Lepidium virginicum L. ssp. virginicum |
| Synonym(s): |
-Lepidium virginicum L. var. linearifolium Farwell
-Lepidium intermedium A. Gray
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| English names: |
Poor-man's Peppergrass
Poor-man's Peppergrass
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| French names: |
Lépidie de Virginie
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Capparales
Family: Brassicaceae
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| OPL Code: |
HLEPVIV
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
A |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
- |
| Distribution: |
-
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Microhabitat: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Semi-domesticated weedy plant in Central America, in Mexico sown by the Tarahumara Indians as a "weed-culture" in maize fields, it is harvested before becoming competitive to the crop and used as a leaf vegetable(1). |
| Key Characters: |
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