field peppergrass

Lepidium campestre

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Lepidium campestre (field pepperwort or field pepperweed) is an annual plant in the Brassicaceae or mustard family, native to Europe, but commonly found in North America as an invasive weed. The most notable characteristic of field pepperweed is the raceme of flowers which forks off of the stem. These racemes are made up of first small white flowers and later green, flat and oval seedpods each about 6 mm long and 4 mm wide. Each seedpod...

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  1. (c) C. E. Timothy Paine, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/69641709@N00/4599099689
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidium_campestre

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