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|accepted_name=Lepidium thurberi
|accepted_authority=Wooton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=25: 259. 1898
|year=1898
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Lepidieae;Lepidium;Lepidium thurberi
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Lepidieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lepidium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lepidium thurberi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 575
|treatment_page=page 593
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; pubescent, (trichomes cylindrical, to 1 mm, and much shorter, clavate ones). <b>Stems</b> often simple from base, erect, branched (several) distally, (0.8)1.2–4.9(–6) dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves (often withered at anthesis); rosulate; petiole 1–3(–4.5) cm; blade pinnatifid (lobes oblong to ovate or lanceolate), (1.4–)2.2–7(–10) cm, margins (of lobes) dentate-sinuate. <b>Cauline</b> leaves shortly petiolate; 1.5–6 cm × 6–25 mm, base not auriculate, margins (of lobes) entire or dentate. <b>Racemes</b> considerably elongated in fruit; rachis pilose, trichomes straight, cylindrical (to 1 mm) with much smaller, clavate ones, sometimes one type present. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate-ascending to horizontal, straight or slightly recurved, (terete), 4–8(–10) × 0.2–0.3 mm, puberulent or pilose adaxially. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals suborbicular to broadly ovate, 1–1.6 × 0.7–1 mm; petals white, broadly obovate to suborbicular, 3–4 × 1.2–2.2 mm, claw 0.7–1.3 mm; stamens 6; filaments (median pairs) 1–1.6 mm, (glabrous); anthers 0.4–0.5 mm. <b>Fruits</b> broadly ovate to orbicular, 2–2.9 × 2–2.8 mm, apically winged, apical notch 0.1–0.2 mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined, glabrous; style 0.3–0.8 mm, exserted beyond apical notch. <b>Seeds</b> ovate-oblong, 1.3–1.6 × 0.8–1.1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Aug.
|habitat=Salt flats, mesquite and creosote bush communities, playas, stream banks, sandy deserts, washes, clay bottoms, bluffs, gravelly granitic sand, grasslands, alluvial fans, roadsides, silty terraces, washes, gravelly flats
|elevation=600-1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Sonora).
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name=Lepidium thurberi
|author=
|authority=Wooton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Aug.
|habitat=Salt flats, mesquite and creosote bush communities, playas, stream banks, sandy deserts, washes, clay bottoms, bluffs, gravelly granitic sand, grasslands, alluvial fans, roadsides, silty terraces, washes, gravelly flats
|elevation=600-1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1898
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Lepidieae
|genus=Lepidium
|species=Lepidium thurberi
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