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SPECIES: Cardaria draba | Heart-Podded Hoary Cress
ABBREVIATION :
CARDRA
SYNONYMS :
Lepidium draba L. [25,31]
SCS PLANT CODE :
CADR
COMMON NAMES :
heart-podded hoary cress
hoary cress
whitetop
pepperweed
TAXONOMY :
The currently accepted scientific name of heart-podded hoary cress is
Cardaria draba (L.) Desv. [8,12,17,23]. It is a member of the
Cruciferae family. Heart-podded hoary cress was originally placed in
the genus Lepidium [34]. There are two recognized varieties of
heart-podded hoary cress [9,23,31]:
C. d. var. draba
C. d. var. repens (Schrenk) O. E. Schulz
According to Hickman [12], C. d. var. repens is a hybrid of C. draba and
C. chalepensis (lens-podded hoary cress) (L.) Hand.
It was originally thought that there was only one species of Cardaria in
North America. In 1933, Bellue reported three distinct species. Some
taxonomists still do not distinguish between the three hoary cresses
[22].
LIFE FORM :
Forb
FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS :
No special status
OTHER STATUS :
NO-ENTRY
COMPILED BY AND DATE :
Lora L. Esser, August 1994
LAST REVISED BY AND DATE :
NO-ENTRY
AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION :
Esser, Lora L. 1994. Cardaria draba. In: Remainder of Citation
Related categories for Species: Cardaria draba
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