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Lepidium sativum

Lepidium sativum

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Lepidium sativum L.
Engl.: garden cress, creasy greens, garden pepper-grass, upland cress.
Deu.: Gartenkresse.
Fran.: cresson alénois.
Sven.: smörgåskrasse, kryddkrasse, kryddkrassing, sommarkrasse.
Suom.: vihantakrassi, ryytikrassi, vihanneskrassi.
Bot. syn.: Thlaspi sativum (L.) Crantz.

Capsella.—Shepherd's Purse.

Botanical name: 
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Cardamine amara
Cardamine hirsuta
Cardamine pratensis
Cochlearia officinalis
Iberis amara
Lepidium campestre
Lepidium graminifolium
Lepidium latifolium
Lepidium ruderale
Lepidium sativum
Lepidium virginicum
Thlaspi arvense

Fig. 55. Capsella Bursa-pastoris. Fig. 56. Fruit of Capsella. Classic texts: King's 1898.

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021-024 Agrimony, Mallow, Cress, Self Heal.

Botanical name: 
Agrimonia eupatoria
Malva sylvestris
Lepidium sativum
Prunella vulgaris

021 Agrimony. 021c Agrimony. 022 Mallow. 022c Mallow. 023 Cress. 023c Cress. 024 Self Heal. 024c Self Heal. Classic texts: Elizabeth Blackwell, 1737 (Vol. 1), 1739 (Vol. 2).

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The Garden Cress.

Botanical name: 
Lepidium sativum

Classic texts: John Hill 1812.

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Lepidium.

Botanical name: 
Lepidium latifolium
Lepidium sativum
Lepidium oleraceum
Lepidium bidentatum
Cardaria draba

Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.

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Trädgårdskrasse.

Botanical name: 
Lepidium sativum

Gamla texter: Kryddor och kryddodling, 1919.

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