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|accepted_name=Lepidium crenatum
|accepted_authority=(Greene) Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=33: 141. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Thelypodium crenatum
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|publication_title=Pittonia
|publication_place=4: 20. 1899
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lepidium montanum subsp. spatulatum
|authority=(B. L. Robinson) C. L. Hitchcock
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lepidium montanum var. spatulatum
|authority=(B. L. Robinson) C. L. Hitchcock
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lepidium scopulorum var. spatulatum
|authority=B. L. Robinson
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lepidium vaseyanum
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Lepidieae;Lepidium;Lepidium crenatum
|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 crenatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 573, 587
|treatment_page=page 579
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>or subshrubs; (woody base aboveground); puberulent. <b>Stems</b> simple from base, erect, branched distally, (2–)3–8(–11) dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves rosulate (on sterile shoots); petiole (1.5–)2.5–8(–10) cm; blade oblanceolate to spatulate, (2–)3–7(–9) cm × 5–23(–32) mm, margins crenate to serrate-crenate. <b>Cauline</b> leaves shortly petiolate or sessile; blade oblong to oblanceolate, 1–3.5 cm × 4–15 mm, base cuneate, not auriculate, margins entire. <b>Racemes</b> (subcorymbose panicles), slightly elongated in fruit; rachis puberulent, trichomes straight. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate-ascending to horizontal, straight, (terete), 3–6(–8) × 0.2–0.25 mm, puberulent adaxially. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals oblong to ovate, (1–)1.3–1.8(–2) × 0.9–1.2 mm; petals white, suborbicular to broadly obovate, (1.8–)2–3 × 1.3–2 mm, claw 0.5–1 mm; stamens 6; filaments 1.4–1.6 mm, (glabrous); anthers 0.5–0.7 mm. <b>Fruits</b> broadly ovate, (2.5–)3–3.5(–4) × (2–)2.3–2.8 mm, apically winged, apical notch 0.1–0.2mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined, glabrous; style 0.2–0.6 mm, exserted beyond apical notch. <b>Seeds</b> ovate, 1.5–2 × 1–1.3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Pinyon-juniper and brush communities, clay bluff of sandstone mesa, arroyo banks
|elevation=1800-2000 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Lepidium crenatum</i> is known from Delta, Moffatt, Montezuma, and Montrose counties in Colorado. It was reported from Utah by C. L. Hitchcock (1936) and R. C. Rollins (1993), but we have not seen any material to confirm its occurrence there.</p>
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name=Lepidium crenatum
|authority=(Greene) Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lepidium montanum subsp. spatulatum;Lepidium montanum var. spatulatum;Lepidium scopulorum var. spatulatum;Lepidium vaseyanum
|basionyms=Thelypodium crenatum
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Pinyon-juniper and brush communities, clay bluff of sandstone mesa, arroyo banks
|elevation=1800-2000 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1906
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Lepidieae
|genus=Lepidium
|species=Lepidium crenatum
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