Lepidium Platypetalum
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.''Lepidium''.
Flora of North America. It includes familiar species such as garden cress, Lepidium meyenii, maca, and Lepidium latifolium, dittander. General common names include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwort. Some species form tumbleweeds. page 210 The genus name ''Lepidium'' is a Greek language, Greek word meaning 'small scale', which is thought to be derived from a folk medicine usage of the plant to treat leprosy, which cause small scales on the skin. Another meaning is related to the small scale-like fruit.Sia Morhardt and Emil Morhardt

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Lepidium Flavum
''Lepidium flavum'' is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name yellow pepperweed. It is native to California, Nevada, and Baja California, where it grows in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. The species epithet ''flavum'' is Latin for yellow and indicates its flower colour.Sia Morhardt and Emil Morhardt Description ''Lepidium flavum'' is a short, mostly prostrate annual herb producing a branching stem up to about 40 centimeters tall when growing upright. The fleshy lobed or toothed leaves grow in a basal rosette at ground level and along the stem, the lowest and longest reaching a few centimeters long. The plant blooms in inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...s of many small flowers, each with yellow petals just a few ...
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