Virginia pepperweed
तोदरी
Lepidium virginicum L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- —
Brassicaceae
Also called Peppergrass, Virginian Peppercress, Pepper Grass, Pepperweed, Least Pepperwort
Formerly Crucifera virginica, Dileptium virginicum, Iberis virginica, Nasturtiastrum virginicum, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canada to C. America, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- cuisique, lipajna shla San José, LEPVIR
- French
- Passerage de Virginie, passerage de virginie
- Spanish
- lentejilla de campo, lentejilla, Perejil de la Tierra
- Chinese
- 獨行菜, 小團扇薺, 北美獨行菜
- German
- Virginische Kresse
- Czech
- řeřicha virginská
- Japanese
- マメグンバイナズナ, 豆軍配薺, コウベナズナ
- Dutch
- Amerikaanse kruidkers, amerikaanse kruidkers, Amerikaanse Kruidkers
- Norwegian Bokmål
- virginiakarse
- Finnish
- virginiankrassi
- Polish
- Pieprzyca wirgińska
- Russian
- Клоповник виргинский
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Lepidium virginicum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.