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Lepidium didymum (Wart-Cress)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lepidium didymum, synonym Coronopus didymus, the lesser swine-cress, is a species of flowering plant in the cabbage and mustard family Brassicaceae.
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Infraspecies

Coronopus pinnatifidus var. pinnatifidus

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual/Biennial
Pollinators [1]  Bats
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [1]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Light Preference [2]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [2]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Rich
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Eurydema dominulus[4]
Nysius huttoni[5]
Phenacoccus solenopsis (solenopsis mealybug)[6]
Plutella xylostella (Diamondback moth)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hyaloperonospora parasitica[7]
Perofascia lepidii[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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
♦ 5New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 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.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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