Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia
Perennial Pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium)
Seedling
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- Regional Noxious Weed
- rhizomatous perennial in the Mustard Family growing from 0.3 to
1 metre tall (2 or more metres in wet areas); lance-shaped leaves
are waxy with distinctive white mid-veins: lower leaves are
stalked; upper leaves are either short stalked or stalkless but do
not clasp the stem; white flowers are borne in dense, rounded
clusters at branch tips
- 2 reddish-brown seeds are contained in each tiny, rounded and
somewhat hairy fruit (silicle)
- very competitive weed that can form dense colonies in riparian
areas and on rangeland/pastures
- can produce over 6 billion seeds per acre
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Waxy leaves with distinctive white veins |
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