EPPO Global Database

Lepidium virginicum(LEPVI)

Overview
Code created in: 1996-10-28

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: LEPVI
  • Preferred name: Lepidium virginicum
  • Authority: Linnaeus

Notes

North America, Central America, Caribbean. Introduced in most of Euromediterranean (except northeast and southeast), Russian Far East, Western Asia, Himalayas, India, Malesia, China (including Taiwan), Korea, Ethiopia, South Africa, South America (except northern Brazil, southern cone)

WSSA list of weeds in North America


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Lepidium ramosissimum A. Nelson

Common names
Name Language
least pepperwort English
peppergrass English (US)
poor man's pepper English
poor man's pepperwort English
Virginian peppercress English (AU)
Virginia pepperweed English (US)
wild cress English
wild pepper grass English
amerikanische Kresse German
virginische Kresse German
Virginische Kresse German
passerage de Virginie French
cresón Spanish
lentejilla Spanish (HN)
mastuerzo Spanish
perejil de la tierra Spanish (PR)
sabelección Spanish (CU)
lepidio della Virginia Italian
amerikaanse kruidkers Dutch
Virginische kruidkers Dutch
mentruz Portuguese
grenkrassing Swedish
virginiakrassing Swedish
mame-gumbai-nazuna Japanese
mamegunbainazuna Japanese
マメグンバイナズナ Japanese
клоповник виргинский Russian
eltere Turkish
pieprzyca wirgińska Polish
amerikai zsázsa Hungarian
virginiai zsázsa Hungarian
djegës Albanian
morritort de Virgínia Catalan
běi měi dú xíng cài Chinese
北美独行菜 Chinese
virginska grbica  Croatian
řeřicha virginská Czech
virginíuperla Icelandic
žerucha virginská Slovak
virginijska draguša Slovene