OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lepidium didymum   FAMILY Brassicaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coronopus didymus   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Lepidium didymum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Lepidium didymum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Coronopus didymus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-05-001:

Coronopus didymus   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Carara didyma

 

COMMON NAME:
Wart-cress, Lesser Swine-cress


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image of Lepidium didymum, Wart-cress, Lesser Swine-cress

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_cadi21_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lepidium didymum   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coronopus didymus   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lepidium didymum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Lepidium didymum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Coronopus didymus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-05-001:
Coronopus didymus   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carara didyma

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4070

Forb
Winter annual

Habitat: Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: South America

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains

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LEAVES:
Simple: Pinnately dissected
Alternate & basal rosette

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
2 stamens

Flowers in racemes

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Silicle

 

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