Lepidium ramosissimum, July 14, 2021
Common & scientific name
Many-branched pepperweed, Lepidium ramosissimum
Family
Mustard, Brassicaceae
Location
Roadside, 9,500’
Fun, weird, helpful, or little known fact
Likes disturbed soil (like roadsides), and I’ve never noticed it until this year, when it had gone to seed. Apparently its flowers are so rudimentary, or altogether absent, that it’s easy to overlook; at least, that is, until its hundreds of round siiques make their appearance.