Lepidium campestre (L.) W.T.Aiton, 1812

Common names

🇬🇧 Field Pepperwort
🇫🇷 Passerage champêtre, Passerage des champs

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superrosids
Clade: Rosids
Clade: Malvids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Subfamily: Brassicoideae
Tribe: Lepidieae
Genus: Lepidium
Species: Lepidium campestre

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with L. draba L., 1753, which has corymbiform inflorescences, while L. campestre has racemose inflorescences.

Possible confusion with Thlaspi arvense, L., 1753, which is entirely glabrous.

Photographs

img/lepidium-campestre.webp — Lepidium campestre

img/lepidium-campestre-2.webp — Lepidium campestre

img/lepidium-campestre-3.webp — Lepidium campestre

img/lepidium-campestre-4.webp — Lepidium campestre

img/lepidium-campestre-5.webp — Lepidium campestre - Leaf

img/lepidium-campestre-6.webp — Lepidium campestre - Immature fruits

Sources

Korpelainen, H., Draper Munt, D., Magos Brehm, J., Labokas, J., Bulińska, Z., Strajeru, S., Smekalova, T., & Tavares, M. (2011). Lepidium campestre (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/176426/7239059
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 592). Biotope.