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|accepted_name=Lepidium latipes
|accepted_authority=Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Icon. Pl.
|place=1: plate 41. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lepidium latipes var. heckardii
|authority=Rollins
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|name=Nasturtium latipes
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Lepidieae;Lepidium;Lepidium latipes
|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 latipes]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 574
|treatment_page=page 585
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; puberulent or hirsute. <b>Stems</b> simple or several from base, erect to ascending or (outer ones) decumbent, unbranched or branched, 0.2–1.5(–3.8) dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves (soon withered); not rosulate; petiole often undifferentiated (to 3 cm); blade linear, 2–10 cm × 1–4 mm, margins entire, dentate, or pinnatisect (lobes 2–10 pairs, margins entire or dentate). <b>Cauline</b> leaves similar to basal, smaller, blade base attenuate, not auriculate, margins entire. <b>Racemes</b> (subcapitate to cylindrical), elongated or not in fruit, (compact); rachis puberulent, trichomes straight, cylindrical. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels erect to slightly ascending, straight and appressed to rachis or distally slightly recurved, (strongly flattened), 2.5–5 × 0.9–1.4 mm, usually puberulent throughout, rarely only adaxially. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals (somewhat persistent), ovate, 1.1–1.4 × 0.6–0.8 mm; petals greenish, obovate-oblong, 1.9–3 × 0.8–1.3 mm, claw absent, (usually pubescent outside, with fringed margin, rarely glabrescent); stamens 4, median; filaments 0.8–1.1 mm; anthers 0.15–0.2 mm. <b>Fruits</b> oblong-ovate, 5–7 × 2.8–4 mm, apically winged, apical notch 1.4–2.8 mm deep; valves thick, smooth, strongly reticulate-veined, hirsute and puberulent, (trichomes spreading, mixed with smaller ones); style obsolete, included in apical notch. <b>Seeds</b> oblong, 2–2.4 × 1.1–1.3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Margins of vernal pools, edges of salt marshes, alkaline flats and adobe, pastures, mud-wet fields
|elevation=0-700 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p>Variety heckardii, which is said to differ from var. latipes mainly by having elongated stems simple at base (instead of short and branched basally), grows mixed with var. latipes in single populations. It appears that the difference is trivial and may well be controlled by a few-gene difference. In our opinion, formal distinction is unwarranted; similar conditions exist in other species (e.g., 27. Lepidium nitidum).</p>
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name=Lepidium latipes
|author=
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lepidium latipes var. heckardii;Nasturtium latipes
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Margins of vernal pools, edges of salt marshes, alkaline flats and adobe, pastures, mud-wet fields
|elevation=0-700 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Icon. Pl.
|publication year=1836
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Lepidieae
|genus=Lepidium
|species=Lepidium latipes
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