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Peppercress
''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 , , and . General s include peppercress, pepp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Banksii
''Lepidium banksii'', known as coastal peppercress, is a rare species of flowering plant from the family Brassicaceae. It is endemic to New Zealand, formerly found around the coast of the northern South Island but now critically endangered. Discovery Coastal peppercress was first collected for culinary purposes: by Cook, in 1770 in the Marlborough Sounds, along with its relative ''Lepidium oleraceum'', as a treatment for scurvy. Both species are members of the Brassicaceae or cabbage family and contain vitamin C. It was collected again in 1827 by Dumont d'Urville in Queen Charlotte Sound and Astrolabe Harbour (now in Abel Tasman National Park), and from those specimens was described by Thomas Kirk in 1899 and named after Sir Joseph Banks, the naturalist on Cook's first voyage. Description Coastal peppercress is a low rambling fleshy-leaved coastal herb. It resembles the closely related Cook's scurvy grass or nau (''L. oleraceum''), but is darker in colour and with more de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Coronopus
''Lepidium coronopus'', (swine cress, creeping wart cress, or greater swine cress), is a species of flowering plant in the Brassicaceae, mustard family which is native to parts of Africa, western Asia and Europe, growing in shingle banks, wasteland or cultivated fields. Description ''Lepidium coronopus'' is a robust herb, grown as an Annual plant, annual, and rarely as a Biennial plant, biennial.Richard Dickinson and France Royer It is a low, to short Prostrate shrub, prostrate plant, with often several from base, stems that sprawl,Simon Harrap trail or spread, and very rarely ascending.Flora of North America Editorial Committee It can reach between tall, with the more or less hairless, and branched distally, stems reaching long. It has two types of leaves, basal and cauline (along the stem), the basal leaves are rosulate (form a rosette), with a petiole (botany), petiole (leaf stalk) long. They are Pinnation, pinnatisect (having lobes with incisions that extend almost, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
