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Lepidium virginicum
Virginia Pepperweed
Poor-man's-pepper
Wild Peppergrass
Florida native
A common herb of disturbed sites in nearly all of Florida. Native to the entire continental United States and Puerto Rico. Introduced in the Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Alaska and parts of Canada.
The pinnately compound or deeply dissected basal leaves are usually absent when this plant is flowering. The stem leaves are alternate, oblanceolate and may be entire or coarsely toothed. The small white four-petaled flowers appear in racemes in the upper portion of the plant. The distinctive fruit is a notched, orbicular silicle with one red-brown seed in each of the chambers.
Lepidium virginicum is a member of the Brassicaceae - Mustard family.
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified: Apr 27, 2020
