Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Brassicales > Brassicaceae > Lepidium > Lepidium drabaLepidium draba (Whitetop)Synonyms: Cardaria brachypetala; Cardaria brachysepala; Cardaria cochlearia; Cardaria draba (homotypic); Cardaria draba draba; Cardaria draba f. macrocarpa; Cardaria draba var. dunense; Cardiolepis dentata; Cochlearia draba (homotypic); Crucifera cardaria (homotypic); Draba ruderalis; Hymenophysa macrocarpa; Jundzillia draba; Lepidium arvense; Lepidium diversifolium; Lepidium draba draba; Lepidium draba eudraba; Lepidium draba var. auriculatum; Lepidium draba var. chalepense; Lepidium drabifolium; Lepidium madritense; Lepidium matritense; Lepidium propinquum var. auriculatum; Nasturtium draba (homotypic) Lepidium draba (whitetop or hoary cress) is a rhizomatous perennial flowering plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. It is native to western Asia and southeastern Europe and widely introduced elsewhere. |
Edible [1] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | Flower Type [1] | Hermaphrodite | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | Pollinators [1] | Bees, Insects, Lepidoptera, Bats | Structure [3] | Herb | | Height [1] | 39 inches (1 m) | | Light Preference [2] | Mostly Sunny | Soil Acidity [2] | Neutral | Soil Fertility [2] | Intermediate | Soil Moisture [2] | Mostly Dry | View Plants For A Future Record : Lepidium draba |
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Species |
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Climate |
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Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik |
Ia |
167827 |
Astrakhan, Russia |
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Avon Gorge Woodlands |
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376 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Braunton Burrows |
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3328 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Burnham Beeches |
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946 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Cape Breton Highlands National Park |
II |
234333 |
Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Cardigan Bay/ Bae Ceredigion |
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236876 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries/ Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd |
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163340 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Craven Limestone Complex |
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13166 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy |
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39057 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes |
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5491 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Essex Estuaries |
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114016 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Hoy |
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23474 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Humber Estuary |
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90582 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Ir-Ramla Area |
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18 |
Malta |
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Khopersky Zapovednik |
Ia |
47103 |
Russia |
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Lago Puelo National Park |
II |
47607 |
Chubut, Argentina |
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Lizard Point |
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34565 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Lyme Bay and Torbay |
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77215 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Margate and Long Sands |
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160406 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Mendip Limestone Grasslands |
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1032 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve |
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293047 |
British Columbia, Canada |
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North Norfolk Coast |
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7926 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Palava Protected Landscape Area |
V |
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Czech Republic |
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Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol |
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341177 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau |
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360832 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve |
V |
1777 |
Spain |
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Salisbury Plain |
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52975 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Sefton Coast |
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11278 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren |
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182155 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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Solent Maritime |
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27985 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Solway Firth |
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107829 |
England/Scotland, United Kingdom |
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South Wight Maritime |
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49082 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Start Point to Plymouth Sound & Eddystone |
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84204 |
England, United Kingdom |
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The Broads |
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14554 |
England, United Kingdom |
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The Wash and North Norfolk Coast |
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266284 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Thorne Moor |
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4718 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Ukrainskii Stepnoi Zapovednik Nature Zapovednik |
Ia |
2920 |
Ukraine |
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Voronezhskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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95835 |
Russia |
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Wormley Hoddesdonpark Woods |
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829 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Y Fenai a Bae Conwy/ Menai Strait and Conwy Bay |
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65440 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 6Predicting seasonal diet in the yellow-bellied marmot: success and failure for the linear programming model, G.P. Edwards, Oecologia (1997) 112:320-330 ♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
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
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