Genus
Lepidium (Pepperweeds)
Lepidium nitidum. Photo: (c) birdgal5, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
Lepidium is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia. It includes familiar species such as garden cress, maca, and dittander. General common names include peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort. Some species form tumbleweeds. The genus name Lepidium is a Greek word meaning ‘small scale’, which is thought to derived from a folk medicine usage of the plant to treat leprosy, which cause
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