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Lepidium nitidum
Shining pepperweed is a small annual wildflower in the mustard family, native to far western North America and Chile. It is a wild plant rather than a commonly grown garden or houseplant, so care is mostly about letting it self-seed in open, dry ground.
Lepidium nitidum, known by the common name shining pepperweed, is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family.
It is native to far western North America from Washington, through Nevada and California, into Baja California. It thrives in diverse habitat types.
Field pepperweed · Common pepperweed · Maca · Mountain pepperweed · Cook's scurvy grass · Clasping pepperweed · Featherleaf pepperweed · Garden cress · Virginia pepperweed · Pepperweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepidium nitidum 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.
