Lepidium latipes
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Lepidium |
| Species: | L. latipes
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Lepidium latipes is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name San Diego pepperweed. It is native to California and Baja California, where it grows in alkaline soils in a number of habitat types.
Description
[edit]Lepidium latipes is an annual herb producing a short, thick, hairy stem generally under 10 centimeters (3.9 in) tall but sometimes taller. Leaves are linear in shape and several centimeters (inches) 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 one-half centimeter (0.20 in) long.
External links
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Categories:
- Lepidium
- Flora of Baja California
- Flora of California
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Natural history of the Central Valley (California)
- Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
- Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Plants described in 1836
- Brassicales stubs