Field Pepperwort - Lepidium campestre
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Field Pepperwort - Lepidium campestre | dylan | South Gloucester | 22 Oct 2022, 3:12 p.m. | 22 Oct 2022, 9:36 a.m. |
Species Description
Widespread but scattered and local throughout the UK; mainly in the South. Habitat includes: Cultivated and disturbed places especially on sandy or gravelly soils such as arable fields, gardens, parks, allotments, churchyards, grassland, roadside verges, walls, wasteland etc. Growing habit: Annual / Biennial. Height: Up to 60cm. Flowers: May to August.
Stace 4:
Lepidium campestre (L.) W.T. Aiton - Field Pepperwort.
Erect to decumbent annual to biennial to 60cm; stem-leaves simple, shortly dentate, with acute auricles clasping stem; fruit (4)4.5-6.8mm, broadly winged apically with more or less deep notch and shorter style; 2n=16. Arhaeophyte-denizen; open grassland, banks, walls, waysides and arable fields; scattered but locally common in much of Britain and Ireland, mostly in South.
Key:
- Lower and middle stem-leaves simple, toothed to very shallowly lobed, clasping stem at base
- Fruit covered with scale-like vesicles; style not exceeding apical notch of fruit
Useful Links:
Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora