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Lepidium pinnatifidum
Also called Wayside Pepper Grass
Featherleaf pepperweed is a small annual or biennial herb in the cabbage family, native to Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Western Himalaya, and now established as a weed in places such as California. It is a weedy plant of open, disturbed ground and grows easily from seed.
Lepidium pinnatifidum is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known in English by the common name featherleaf pepperweed.
The plant is native to Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East.
Field pepperweed · Common pepperweed · Maca · Mountain pepperweed · Shining pepperweed · Cook's scurvy grass · Clasping pepperweed · Garden cress · Virginia pepperweed · Pepperweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepidium pinnatifidum 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.
