Lepidium abrotanifolium
Lesser Swinecress
Lepidium didymum
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- Botanical name
- Lepidium didymum
- Also known as
- Lesser Swine-Cress, Lesser Swine's Cress, Lesser Swinecress, Lesser Wartcress, Slender Wart-Cress
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Lepidium
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Lesser Swinecress
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 didymum but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Biscutella apetala
Carara didyma
Cochlearia humifusa
Coronopus didymus
Coronopus didymus f. incisus
Coronopus didymus f. pectinatus
Coronopus didymus var. incisa
Coronopus didymus var. macrocarpus
Coronopus didymus var. rosulatus
Coronopus heleniana
Coronopus incisus
Coronopus leptocarpus
Coronopus leptocarpus var. leptocarpus
Coronopus leptocarpus var. microcarpus
Coronopus pectinatus
Coronopus pinnatifidus
Coronopus pinnatifidus
Coronopus pinnatus
Crucifera senebiera
Eudistemon humifusum
Lepicochlea americana
Lepidium americanum
Lepidium anglicum
Lepidium prostratum
Nasturtiolum castratum
Nasturtiolum pinnatum
Nasturtium americanum
Senebiera didyma
Senebiera heleniana
Senebiera incisa
Senebiera pectinata
Senebiera pinnatifida
Senebiera supina
Others in Lepidium
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