Lepidium L.

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Brassicaceae

• Scientific Name

  Lepidium L.

• Description

  Genus Description - Annual to perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely simple, pinnately divided to tripinnate. Flowers in terminal racemes; hyaline; petals obovate or spatulate, white, rarely pink or yellow; stamens 6, 4, or 2; nectary glands present; ovary with 2 ovules, the style short or absent, the stigma capitate. Fruit a lenticular, ovate, elliptic, or oblong silique, the septum transverse; seeds pendulous, 1 per locule.