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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Brassicaceae
Lepidium ruderale L.
fetid peppergrass, roadside pepper-weed, stinking pepper-weed
Lepidium: from the Greek lepidion, meaning "a little scale," in reference to the shape of the fruit pods
ruderale: rough
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | annual/biennial, 8"-20" tall forb, foul smelling |
| Flower: | 4-parted |
| Fruit: | ovate to elliptic, flat pod, notched at tip, wingless |
| Leaf: | lower leaves usually twice pinnately-lobed; upper leaves not clasping |
| Habitat: | disturbed areas |
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