Mountain Pepperplant

Lepidium montanum

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Botanical name
Lepidium montanum
Also known as
Mountain Pepperplant, Mountain Pepperwort
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Lepidium
Reference
World Flora Online

How to grow Mountain Pepperplant

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Other names for this plant

These names have all been used for Lepidium montanum but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.

Lepidium albiflorum Lepidium alyssoides var. jonesii Lepidium alyssoides var. stenocarpum Lepidium brachybotryum Lepidium corymbosum Lepidium crandallii Lepidium heterophyllum Lepidium integrifolium var. heterophyllum Lepidium jonesii Lepidium montanum f. cinereum Lepidium montanum f. wyomingense Lepidium montanum subsp. alpinum Lepidium montanum subsp. canescens Lepidium montanum subsp. cinereum Lepidium montanum subsp. glabrum Lepidium montanum subsp. heterophyllum Lepidium montanum subsp. jonesii Lepidium montanum var. alpinum Lepidium montanum var. canescens Lepidium montanum var. cinereum Lepidium montanum var. claronense Lepidium montanum var. coloradense Lepidium montanum var. diffusum Lepidium montanum var. glabrum Lepidium montanum var. heterophyllum Lepidium montanum var. jonesii Lepidium montanum var. montanum Lepidium montanum var. neeseae Lepidium montanum var. nevadense Lepidium montanum var. soliarborense Lepidium montanum var. stellae Lepidium montanum var. stenocarpum Lepidium montanum var. tenellum Lepidium montanum var. todiltoense Lepidium montanum var. wyomingense Lepidium scopulorum Lepidium scopulorum f. canescens Lepidium scopulorum f. nanum Lepidium tenellum Lepidium utahense Lepidium utaviense

Others in Lepidium

Lepidium ruderale
Roadside Peppergrass
Lepidium abrotanifolium
Lepidium aegrum
Lepidium affghanum
Lepidium affine
Lepidium afghanicum
Lepidium acutidens
Lepidium africanum
Common Pepper Cress

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