The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Lepidium graminifolium
Also called Tall Pepperwort
Grassleaf pepperweed is a wild herb in the cabbage family, native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean, that grows to about 50 cm tall. It is a weedy, undemanding plant of dry open ground rather than a garden crop.
Lepidium graminifolium, the grassleaf pepperweed or tall pepperwort, is a species of annual herb in the family Brassicaceae. They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Flowers are visited by Ruiziella luctuosa. Individuals can grow to 51 cm tall.
African pepperwort · Waitakere Scurvy Grass · Waianae Range pepperwort · Lepidium aschersonii · Southern pepperwort · Coastal peppercress · Barneby's pepperweed · Field pepperweed · Creeping Watercress · Common pepperweed · Alkali pepperweed · Wartcress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepidium graminifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
