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§1 Plant

Lepidium campestre (L.) W.T. Aiton

vernacular field pepperweed — species · Brassicaceae


USDA
LECA5
GBIF
7703116
Rank
species
field pepperweed (Lepidium campestre)
Platephotograph · Zdeňka NovákováCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Brassicaceae Burnett
Genus
Lepidium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 727 counties across 29 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 727 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 727 counties across 29 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 1 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 1 I
Georgia view state ↗ 8 I
Illinois view state ↗ 83 I
Indiana view state ↗ 62 I
Iowa view state ↗ 8 I
Kansas view state ↗ 22 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 53 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I
Maine view state ↗ 11 I
Maryland view state ↗ 1 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I
Michigan view state ↗ 57 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 I
Montana view state ↗ 19 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 I
New York view state ↗ 42 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 48 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 66 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 46 I
Vermont view state ↗ 10 I
Virginia view state ↗ 89 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 39 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LECA5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7703116 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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