Taxon: Lepidium appelianum Al-Shehbaz

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 pubescens)*°, AZ(as Cardaria pubescens)*°, CA(as Cardaria pubescens)*°, CO(as Cardaria pubescens)°, HI(as Cardaria pubescens)*°, ND(as Cardaria pubescens)°, NE(as Hymenophysa pubescens)°, NM(as Cardaria pubescens)°, NV(as Cardaria pubescens)°, OH°, OH(as Cardaria pubescens)°, OR(as Cardaria pubescens)*°, WA(as Cardaria pubescens)°, WY(as Cardaria pubescens)*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Link to species profile at

Common names:

• ball cress   (Source: State Noxweed Seed as Cardaria pubescens)
  
• cardaria   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Cardaria pubescens)
  
• globe-pod hoary cress   (Source: Noxious Weed List-CA as Cardaria pubescens)
  
• globe-pod thistle   (Source: Noxious Weed List-OR as Cardaria pubescens)
  
• hairy whitetop   (Source: F Utah as Cardaria pubescens)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Cruc NAmer, as Cardaria pubescens)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.]
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
  Mongolia: Mongolia [w.]
  China: China - Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Xinjiang

Other:

• naturalized in w. North America

References:

• 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.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• 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) [= Cardaria pubescens].
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Mem. 9. (F Utah) [= Cardaria pubescens].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lepidium appelianum.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Cardaria pubescens (C. A. Mey.) Jarm.
  
• (=) Hymenophysa pubescens C. A. Mey.
  

Check other databases for Lepidium appelianum Al-Shehbaz:

• 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:

• 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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