Lepidium hirtum(L.) Sm.

Mediterranean pepperweed

WFO wfo-0000358263 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Lepidium hirtum, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. a Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-05-01 / obs. 37601180
Lepidium hirtum, photographed by Denis Bastianelli
fig. b Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116789190
Lepidium hirtum, photographed by Denis Bastianelli
fig. c Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116789209
Lepidium hirtum, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. d Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 7484355
Lepidium hirtum, photographed by Fabien Piednoir
fig. e Fabien Piednoir, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 7775669

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Lepidium hirtum is native: Algeria, Morocco, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiSiciliaSpain
Native distribution of Lepidium hirtum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Corse COR EUROPE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 45 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Hutchinsia grandiflora Soleirol ex Nyman
  • Lasioptera hirta (L.) Andrz. ex DC.
  • Lepia bonanniana C.Presl
  • Lepia hirta (L.) Desv.
  • Lepia stylata Webb
  • Lepidium atlanticum (Ball) Thell.
  • Lepidium bonannianum Guss.
  • Lepidium calycotrichum Kunze
  • Lepidium dhayense Munby
  • Lepidium granatense Coss.
  • Lepidium heterophyllum subsp. atlanticum (Ball) J.M.Monts.
  • Lepidium hirtum var. calycotrichum (Kunze) Pau
  • Lepidium hirtum var. hirtellum Maire
  • Lepidium hirtum var. psilochortum Maire & Weiller
  • Lepidium hirtum var. psilopterum Willk.
  • Lepidium hirtum var. scabrescens Maire
  • Lepidium humifusum Req.
  • Lepidium magnolii Bubani
  • Lepidium microstylum Boiss. & Heldr.
  • Lepidium nebrodense Guss.
  • Lepidium nebrodense var. atlanticum Ball
  • Lepidium oxyotum DC.
  • Lepidium petrophilum Coss.
  • Lepidium petrophilum var. afrum Pau & Font Quer

and 21 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.