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|accepted_name=Lepidium fremontii
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Botany (Fortieth Parallel),
|place=30, plate 4, figs. 3, 4. 1871
|year=1871
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lepidium fremontii var. stipitatum
|authority=Rollins
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|name=Nasturtium fremontii
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Lepidieae;Lepidium;Lepidium fremontii
|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 fremontii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 570, 572
|treatment_page=page 582
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>or subshrubs; (woody base aboveground); (glaucous), glabrous throughout. <b>Stems</b> several from base, erect or ascending, branched (several) distally, 2–5.5(–10) dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves absent. <b>Cauline</b> leaves sessile; blade linear and undivided or pinnately lobed (lobes 3–7(–9), linear), (1.5–)2.2–8.4(–10.2) cm × (0.7–)1–2.8(–4.2) mm, base attenuate, not auriculate, margins entire, (similar, smaller distally). <b>Racemes</b> (panicles), elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate-ascending to horizontal, usually straight, rarely slightly curved, (terete), (3.5–)4.3–7.6(–8.5) × 0.15–0.2 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals obovate, 1.5–2.5(–3) × 1–1.6 mm; petals white, spatulate, 2.5–4.2 × 1.5–2.2 mm, claw 1–2 mm; stamens 6; filaments 1.8–3 mm; anthers 0.4–0.7 mm. <b>Fruits</b> obovate to orbicular, (4–)4.5–7(–8) × 4.2–7(–8) mm, apically winged, apical notch (0.1–)0.2–0.5 mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined; style 0.2–0.8(–1) mm, exserted beyond apical notch. <b>Seeds</b> ovate, 1.6–2.1 × 0.9–1.1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Desert shrub communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands, sandy washes, gravelly deserts, barren knolls, bluffs, roadsides, steep limestone outcrops, rocky ledges and slopes
|elevation=400-2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|discussion=<p>Rollins established var. stipitatum on the basis of fruits obovate with gynophores 0.5–0.75 mm versus (<i></i></i>var.<i><i> fremontii</i>) fruits orbicular to ovate and sessile. These two characters often do not covary and stipitate fruits occur sporadically throughout the species range, including Arizona (Lemmon s.n., GH), California (Morefield 3427, GH), and <i>Nevada</i> (Comanor 18, GH; Hitchcock 3078, GH).</p>
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name=Lepidium fremontii
|author=
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lepidium fremontii var. stipitatum;Nasturtium fremontii
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Desert shrub communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands, sandy washes, gravelly deserts, barren knolls, bluffs, roadsides, steep limestone outcrops, rocky ledges and slopes
|elevation=400-2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Botany (Fortieth Parallel),
|publication year=1871
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Lepidieae
|genus=Lepidium
|species=Lepidium fremontii
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