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Lepidium (from Greek for little scale, alluding to the small flat pods). Crudferae. Cress. Pepper-Grass. Small mostly unattractive herbs (or rarely subshrubs), one of which is a salad plant. See Cress.

Annual, biennial or perennial, erect or spreading, with many small white flowers: leaves very various, simple to more or less bipinnate: flowers mostly racemose, often with loafy bracts intervening; petals small or wanting; stamens 2-6: pod circular, flattened against or contrary to the partition; seed 1 in each cell; cotyledons in most cases incumbent.—Perhaps 100 species in many parts of the world. There are about 20 native species, mostly western, and several intro. weedy species. The foliage and pods have an aromatic-peppery flavor. The herbage of some species is used as salad, and the pods are sometimes fed to tame birds (whence the name "canary grass"). There are no species of much ornamental value.
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