Lepidium densiflorum
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Lepidium |
| Species: | L. densiflorum
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Lepidium densiflorum is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names common pepperweed and prairie peppergrass.
It is a common and widespread plant in North America, where it grows in many habitats across Canada and the United States.
Description
Lepidium densiflorum is an annual or biennial herb producing a short, erect, branching stem up to about 30 centimeters in height. Leaves grow in a basal rosette at the base of the stem and reach up to about 10 centimeters long; leaves higher up on the stem are smaller and less prominently lobed.
The plant produces raceme inflorescences of tiny flowers with sepals each only about a millimeter long. There are usually no petals, though sometimes vestigial petals appear near the sepals.
The fruit is a few millimeters long.
External links
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- Lepidium
- Flora of Eastern Canada
- Flora of the Eastern United States
- Flora of Western Canada
- Flora of the Western United States
- Flora of California
- Flora of the Appalachian Mountains
- Flora of the Great Plains (North America)
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Plants described in 1832
- Brassicales stubs