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)*°, CA(as Cardaria draba)*°, CO(as Cardaria draba)*°, HI(as Cardaria draba)°, IA*°, ID(as Cardaria draba subsp. draba)°, ID(as Cardaria draba)*, IL(as Cardaria draba)°, IN°, KS*°, 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:

• heart-pod hoary cress   (Source: Noxweed Aust [as Cardaria draba subsp. draba]) – English
  
• hoary cardaria   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• hoary cress   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• pepper cress   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• perennial peppergrass   (Source: State Noxweed Seed [as Cardaria draba subsp. draba]) – English
  
• tall whitetop   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• whitetop   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• peperbos   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• pain blanc   (Source: Salades Sauvages ) – French
  
• passerage drave   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Pfeilkresse   (Source: Zander Ency [as Cardaria draba]) – German
  
• agrião-flecha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Cardaria draba]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• välsk krassing   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Salades Sauvages 116-117. 2003)
  
• 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:

• 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 - Altay, Irkutsk, Kurgan, Omsk
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China - Liaoning, Shandong, Xinjiang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria
  East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland [s.]; Ireland; Norway [s.]; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

References:

• Al-Shehbaz, I. A. et al. 2002. Cardaria, Coronopus, and Stroganowia are united with Lepidium (Brassicaceae). Novon 12:6.
• Al-Shehbaz, I. A. 2010. A synopsis of the South American Lepidium (Brassicaceae). Darwiniana 48:141–167.
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• Claude, M. et al. 2003. Les salades sauvages. L'ensalada champanèla, 3e édition.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• 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. [= 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. [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. [= Cardaria draba subsp. draba].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource).
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999 [= Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lepidium draba.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lepidium draba.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lepidium draba.

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 web resources for Lepidium draba L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

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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