Family | Brassicaceae |
Scientific name | Lepidium virginicum L. |
Synonyms | Crucifera virginica (L.) E. H. L. Krause; Cynocardamum virginicum (L.) Webb & Berthelot; Iberis virginica (L.) Fischer & C. A. Meyer; Lepidium iberis L.; Lepidium virginicum L. subsp. euvirginicum Thellung; Lepidium virginicum L. var. linearifolium Farwell; Lepidium virginicum L. var. typicum Thellung; Nasturtium virginicum (L.) Kuntze; Thlaspi virginianum Poiret; Thlaspi virginicum (L.) Cavanilles |
Common name | (Japanese common name) mame-gunbai-nazu-na (マメグンバイナズナ, 豆軍配薺 [meaning: tiny gunbai stroking green (gunbai = a military leader's fan)]) |
(English common name) Virginia pepperweed | |
Distribution | (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
(Other nations) [native] Canada, USA, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama | |
Habitat | Field, roadside, riverside |
Chromosomal number | 2n=32 |
Description | Plants 20-40cm tall. Flowers white, flowering in April to August. Annual or winter annual plants. |
Reference | Lepidium virginicum L. |
Lepidium virginicum L. | |
Lepidium virginicum L. | |
Herbicidal method (US Patent 4165229/1979) | |
Oxazoline compounds and herbicides containing the same (US Patent 4973351/1990) | |
Polymers containing antimicrobial agents and methods for making and using same (US Patent 5906825/1999) | |
Uracil compounds and use thereof (US Patent 6667413/2003) | |
Trace element phytoremediation (US Patent 6974896/2005) | |
Heavy metal phytoremediation (US Patent 7034202/2006) | |
Pyridone compounds useful for producing pyridine compounds (US Patent 7223862/2007) | |
Process for producing pyridine compound (US Patent 7157579/2007) | |
Note | Naturalized plants (introduced in 1892). |
May 2007 at riverside |
May 2007 at riverside |
May 2007 at riverside |
May 2007 at roadside |
May 2007 at roadside |
May 2007 at roadside |