Lepidium nitidum Hitchc. var. nitidum

PLANTS OF CALIFORNIA
Butte Connty
11177 Lepidium nitidum Nutt.; T. & G. FI. N.
A. 1: 116. 1838,
A. A. Heller, collector February 10, 1914
In a young olive orchard eight miles north of Oroville, near
the western base of Table mountain. Very abundant, and one
of the first plants to bloom in early spring, whitening the ground
in places. Plants growing on sterile hills are barely an inch high.
When plentiful in an orchard it may figure as a cover crop. The
lower side of the pod is brownish, convex, the broad pedicels
somewhat recurved. The type was collected near Santa Barbara.
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