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Lepidium africanum
Also called Cape pepper cress, Bird weed, Common Pepper Cress, Rubble Pepper Cress, Divaricate Pepperwort, Pepper Cress
Lepidium africanum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It is an annual or perennial which ranges from Saudi Arabia and Sudan to southern Africa.
Waitakere Scurvy Grass · Waianae Range pepperwort · Lepidium aschersonii · Southern pepperwort · Coastal peppercress · Barneby's pepperweed · Field pepperweed · Creeping Watercress · Common pepperweed · Alkali pepperweed · Wartcress · Hoary cress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepidium africanum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
