Lepidium fremontii
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Lepidium fremontii, the desert pepperweed, is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family which is native to the southwestern United States, where it grows on sandy desert flats and the rocky slopes of nearby hills and mountains. It takes its scientific name from John C. Frémont.{{ cite web |url=http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/pageF.html |title=Botanical Names: F |author=Michael L. Charters |work=California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations |location=Sierra Madre, CA |access-date=September 24, 2009}}
Description
Lepidium fremontii is a robust perennial herb producing a branching, tangled gray stem to about a meter in height. The many sprawling stems are foliated in linear leaves up to about 10 centimeters long which may have several fingerlike lobes. The plant produces thick racemes of many small flowers. Each flower has spoon-shaped white petals just a few millimeters long. The fruit is a mostly flattened oblong to rounded capsule under a centimeter long.
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External links
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- [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2240,2504,2518 Jepson Manual Treatment of Lepidium fremontii]
- [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Lepidium+fremontii Lepidium fremontii — U.C. Photo gallery]
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Category:Flora of the California desert regions
Category:Flora of the Great Basin
Category:Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Category:Natural history of the Colorado Desert
Category:Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Category:Plants described in 1871
Category:Taxa named by Sereno Watson
Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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