Lepidium ruderale is species of flowering plants in the mustard or cabbage family, Brassicaceae. It is native to temperate Asia and northern and eastern Europe. It has also naturalized in southwestern Europe and North America. Its common names include roadside pepperweed, narrow-leaved pepperwort, narrow-leaf pepperwort, and peppergrass.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Narrow-leaved Pepperwort being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Lepidium apetalum
- Lepidium ramosissimum
- Lepidium densiflorum
- Lepidium bonariense
- Lepidium bipinnatifidum
- Lepidium virginicum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Brassicales
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Lepidium
- Species
- Lepidium ruderale
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