Names and Taxonomy
- Common Names: Desert Pepperweed, Desert Alysum, Desert Peppergrass, Bush Pepperwort
- Synonyms: Lepidium fremontii
- Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard)
- Genus Information: 13 species in NV and NM, 18 UT, 22 CA, 12 TX, 42 in US
Lepidium fremontii
Desert Pepperweed
It is a robust perennial herb producing a branching, tangled gray stem to about a meter in height. The many sprawling stems are foliated in linear leaves up to about 10 centimeters long which may have several fingerlike lobes. The plant produces thick racemes of many small flowers. Each flower has spoon-shaped white petals just a few millimeters long. The fruit is a mostly flattened oblong to rounded capsule under a centimeter long.
