Lepidium virginicum L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Brassicaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual, erect, glabrous. Basal leaves obovate or spatulate in outline, pinnatifid, generally with a large terminal lobe and numerous small lateral ones, all dentate, glabrous or slightly pubescent; stem-leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear, sessile, or the lower stalked; flowers 1-2 mm. broad, white; petals generally present, sometimes wanting in the later flowers; pedicels slender, spreading, 4-6 mm. long in fruit; pod flat, short-oval or orbicular, minutely winged above; cotyledons accumbent.
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Distribution
A weed of waste grounds and cultivated soils, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Andros, Turk's Islands, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : Bermuda : native of continental North America : widely naturalized as a weed in the West Indies, Mexico and Central America. Wild Pepper - grass.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| West Indies| México Mexico North America| Central America|