Taxon: Lepidium appelianum Al-Shehbaz

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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]) – English
  
• globe-pod hoary cress   (Source: NPB State Noxweed CA [as Cardaria pubescens\;http://nationalplantboard.org/docs/summaries/california.pdf]) – English
  
• hairy whitetop   (Source: F Utah CA [as Cardaria pubescens]) – English
  
• cardaria   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Cardaria pubescens]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia [w.]
  China: China - Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Xinjiang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan [n.]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Michigan, Pennsylvania
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California, Nevada, Utah
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Chubut, Neuquen, Rio Negro
  South America

References:

• Al-Shehbaz, I. A. 2010. A synopsis of the South American Lepidium (Brassicaceae). Darwiniana 48:141–167.
• 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.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• National Plant Board. 2008–. National Plant Board federal and state quarantine summaries.
• 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. [= Cardaria pubescens].
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource).
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Mem. 9. [= 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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lepidium appelianum.

Synonyms:

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

Check other web resources for Lepidium appelianum Al-Shehbaz:

• 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
• 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.

Images:

• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• 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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