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Lepidium africanum (African pepperwort)

Synonyms:

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]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Riverland Biosphere Reserve Ia 1490891 South Australia, Australia

Predators

Pieris rapae (imported cabbageworm)[3]
Serinus alario (Black-headed Canary)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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