Lepidium abrotanifolium
Least Pepperwort
Lepidium virginicum
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- Botanical name
- Lepidium virginicum
- Also known as
- Least Pepperwort, Peppergrass, Poor-Man's Pepper, Poor-Man's Peppergrass, Poor-Man's-Pepper, Poorman Pepperweed, Poorman's Pepper, Poorman's Pepperwort, Virginia Cress, Virginia Pepper Cress, Virginia Peppergrass, Virginia Pepperweed, Virginian Peppercress
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Lepidium
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Least Pepperwort
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Lepidium virginicum but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Conocardamum virginicum
Crucifera virginica
Cynocardamum virginicum
Dileptium diffusum
Dileptium precox
Dileptium virginicum
Discovium gracile
Discovium ohiotense
Iberis virginica
Lepidium arcuatum
Lepidium danielsii
Lepidium diandrum
Lepidium exiguiflorum
Lepidium majus
Lepidium micropterum
Lepidium praecox
Lepidium virginicum var. durangense
Lepidium virginicum var. linearifolium
Lepidium virginicum var. virginicum
Nasturtium diandrum
Nasturtium majus
Semetum ramosum
Thlaspi virginianum
Thlaspi virginicum
Others in Lepidium
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