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Lepidium nitidum (shining pepperweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lepidium nitidum, known by the common name shining pepperweed, is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family. It is native to far western North America from Washington, through Nevada and California, into Baja California. It thrives in diverse habitat types. It may be found elsewhere as an introduced species.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  A decoction of the plant has been used as a hair wash to keep the scalp clean and prevent baldness;
Height [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Table Mountain   California, United States      

Predators

Dipodomys ingens (giant kangaroo rat)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Dipodomys ingens, Daniel F. Williams and Kerry S. Kilburn, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 377, pp. 1-7 (1991)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0