Lepidium lasiocarpum / Shaggyfruit pepperweed

Lepidium lasiocarpum Nutt.

Common names: Shaggyfruit pepperweed, peppergrass, hairy-pod pepperwort

Seri: coquée – “pepper” / isnáap ic is – “whose fruit is on one side” / queeto oobit – “what Aldebaran eats” (Felger and Moser 1985:288)

Location in Texas: W, SW, & S TX.

Form: herb; annual, biennial.

Food

Flowering / fruiting tops – eaten fresh or dried by the Seri as a flavoring for meat (Felger and Moser 1985:288).

Lepidium lasiocarpum Nutt. in GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-04-27.

Lepidium lasiocarpum Nutt. observed in United States of America by Rachel Stringham (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Lepidium lasiocarpum Nutt. observed in United States of America by Rod (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
Lepidium lasiocarpum Nutt. observed in United States of America by Rod (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
Lepidium lasiocarpum Nutt. observed in United States of America by Jake N. (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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