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Lepidium hypenantion

Lepidium hypenantion
Photo: Lachlan Copeland, CC BY-SA 4.0

Lepidium hypenantion is a small annual wild plant in the cabbage (mustard) family, native to the eastern edge of the central western plains of New South Wales, Australia. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for a dry-climate annual.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly only during establishment; it is adapted to dry conditions and needs little supplemental water.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
Suited to warm, subtropical conditions; frost-sensitive.
How easy
Easy
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Lepidium hypenantion is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family which is native to Australia.

It was first described in 1982 by Helen Joan Hewson.

Other Lepidium plants

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 hypenantion 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.

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