Lepidium didymum

Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 22/04/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Coronopus didymus.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Formerly Coronopus didymus.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Stokes Valley, Lower hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 15/05/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 07/10/2012, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common name

twin cress

Synonyms

Coronopus didymus

Family

Brassicaceae

Authority

Lepidium didymum L.

Flora category

Vascular – Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

NVS code

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CORDID

Flower colours

Green, White

Year naturalised

1855

Origin

Europe, Long known in New Zealand as Coronopus didymus (L.) Sm.

Etymology

lepidium: Scale-shaped (pods)

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