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Lepidium perfoliatum
Also called Perfoliate Pepperwort, Clasping Peppergrass, Clasping Pepperwort, Clasping Leaved Peppergrass, Perfoliate Peppergrass, Round Leaved Peppergrass, Yellow Flowered Peppergrass
Clasping pepperweed is a small annual or biennial weed of the cabbage family, native to Europe and Asia, that grows as a wild herb rather than a garden plant. It is grown mainly as a wild or weed species, so cultivation advice is limited.
Lepidium perfoliatum is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names clasping pepperweed and perfoliate pepperwort. It is native to Europe and Asia and it can be found in other parts of the world as an introduced species.
This is an annual or biennial herb producing an erect stem to a maximum height near 60 centimeters. Leaves at the base of the plant are divided into linear lobes, while the leaves higher up on the stem are rounded to oval in shape and surround the stem. The tip of the stem is occupied by an inflorescence of very small flowers, each with yellow petals only 1 or 2 millimeters (0.039 or 0.079 in) long. The fruit is a flattened oval or diamond-shaped capsule about 4 millimeters (0.16 in) long.
Field pepperweed · Common pepperweed · Maca · Mountain pepperweed · Shining pepperweed · Cook's scurvy grass · Featherleaf pepperweed · Garden cress · Virginia pepperweed · Pepperweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepidium perfoliatum 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.
