Lepidium
id:
lepidium-211-3410721
title:
Lepidium
text:
Lepidium is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia. It includes familiar species such as garden cress, maca, and dittander. General common names include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwort. Some species form tumbleweeds.
The genus name Lepidium is a Greek word meaning 'small scale', which is thought to be derived from a folk medicine usage of the plant to treat leprosy, w
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Genus of flowering plants in the cabbage family Brassicaceae
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidium
date created:
2005-07-07T09:04:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T00:40:53Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Lepidium_flavum_3.jpg","width":1600,"height":1373}
fields total:
13
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16