Calflora: Lepidium campestre

Lepidium campestre (L.) Ait. f.

Cow cress, English pepper grass, field pepper grass, field pepperweed

Lepidium campestre, a dicot, is an annual or perennial herb that is not native to California; it was introduced from elsewhere and naturalized in the wild.

Note: TJM2 bloom period: May--Jul

Communities:	weed, species characteristic of disturbed places
Habitat:	disturbed [Walker]
Elevation:	between 2953 and 6234 feet
Family:	BRASSICACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Lepidium found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Neolepia campestris
PLANTS:	Thlaspi campestre

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
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	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alpine: 7 / 7 CCH Amador: 1 / 1 CCH Butte: 7 / 6 CCH Calaveras: 4 / 4 CCH Del Norte: 3 / 2 CCH El Dorado: 4 / 4 CCH Humboldt: 6 / 6 CCH Kern: 6 / 5 CCH Lassen: 9 / 8 CCH Mendocino: 3 / 2 CCH Mono: 2 / 2 CCH Monterey: 4 / 3 CCH Modoc: 8 / 8 CCH Nevada: 15 / 13 CCH Orange: 1 / 0 CCH Placer: 14 / 10 CCH Plumas: 36 / 32 CCH San Diego: 5 / 3 CCH Shasta: 25 / 13 CCH Sierra: 21 / 20 CCH Siskiyou: 32 / 31 CCH San Mateo: 1 / 0 CCH Sonoma: 1 / 0 CCH Tehama: 3 / 3 CCH Trinity: 16 / 12 CCH Tulare: 1 / 1 CCH Tuolumne: 1 / 0 CCH Yuba: 4 / 4 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Lepidium campestre from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (LECA5)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database