Taxon: Lepidium draba L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AK(as Cardaria draba)*°, AZ(as Cardaria draba)*°, AZ(as Cardaria draba)°, CA(as Cardaria draba)*°, CO(as Cardaria draba)*°, HI(as Cardaria draba)°, IA(as Cardaria draba)*°, ID(as Cardaria draba subsp. draba)°, ID(as Cardaria draba)*, IL(as Cardaria draba)°, IN°, KS(as Cardaria draba)°, MI(as Cardaria draba)*°, MN°, MO(as Cardaria draba)°, MT(as Cardaria draba)*°, ND(as Cardaria draba)°, NE(as Cardaria draba)°, NM(as Cardaria draba)*°, NV(as Cardaria draba)*°, OH(as Cardaria draba)°, OH(as Lepidium draba subsp. draba)°, OK(as Cardaria draba)*°, OR(as Cardaria draba)*°, SD(as Cardaria draba)*°, WA(as Cardaria draba)°, WY(as Cardaria draba subsp. draba)°, WY(as Cardaria draba)*°, WY(as Lepidium draba subsp. draba)°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Link to species profile at

Common names:

• agrião-flecha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Cardaria draba)
  
• heart-pod hoary cress   (Source: Noxweed Aust as Cardaria draba subsp. draba)
  
• hoary cardaria   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 )
  
• hoary cress   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• peperbos   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 )
  
• pepper-cress   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 )
  
• perennial peppergrass   (Source: State Noxweed Seed as Cardaria draba subsp. draba)
  
• tall whitetop   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• white-top   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as Cardaria draba)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Lepidium draba from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia [s.w.], Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China - Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

Other:

• widely naturalized in temperate regions

References:

• Al-Shehbaz, I. A. et al. 2002. Cardaria, Coronopus, and Stroganowia are united with Lepidium (Brassicaceae). Novon 12:6.
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist. (L Egypt)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk) [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].
• Francis, A. & S. I. Warwick. 2008. The biology of Canadian weeds. 3. Lepidium draba L., L. chalepense L., L. appelianum Al-Shehbaz (updated). Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 88:379–401.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit) [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001) [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust) [= Cardaria draba subsp. draba].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2) [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lepidium draba.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lepidium draba. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.
  
• (≡) Cardaria draba subsp. draba
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (≡) Lepidium draba subsp. draba
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other databases for Lepidium draba L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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