Lepidium abrotanifolium
Common Pepper Cress
Lepidium africanum
DC. Species
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- Botanical name
- Lepidium africanum
- Also known as
- Common Pepper Cress, Rubble Pepper Cress
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Lepidium
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Common Pepper Cress
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Lepidium africanum but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Lepidium africanum subsp. africanum
Lepidium ambiguum
Lepidium divaricatum
Lepidium dubium
Lepidium hyssopifolium
Lepidium iberioides
Lepidium tasmanicum
Thlaspi africanum
Others in Lepidium
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