Green-flowered Pepperweed

Green-flowered Pepperweed

Lepidium densiflorum Schrad.

Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)

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▲ ▼ mature, flowering plants

▲flowers and fruit

Green-flowered Pepperweed:

  • biennial or cool-season annual weed
  • similar to Virginia pepperweed, but petals are green or absent and equal to or shorter than sepals, so that they are not visible as white petals as in Virginia pepperweed
  • more common in northern Midwest than central areas, although found throughout midwest

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