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  • COMMON NAME: Garden cress
  • ARABIC: رشاد
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Lepidium sativum L.
  • SYNONYMS: Cardamon sativum, Lepia sativa, Lepidium hortense, Lepidium spinescens.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/lepidium_sativum.htm https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:138141-2/images V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
eaten as a salad. medicinal plant.
Annual, 30-50 cm high, erect, branched, glabrous or pilose. Basal leaves 3-8 cm long, irregularly 1-3 pinnatisect, petiolate; cauline pinnatisect or dentate; the upper most linear, entire. Flowers small, about 3 mm across; pedicel 2-4 mm long in fruit. Sepals 1-2 mm long, oblong. Petals 2-3 mm long, white or pink. Silicles broadly oblong to ovate, 5-6 mm long and 4-5 mm wide, compressed, slightly winged-emarginate at apex, with short style. Seeds small, brown. Flowering from February to May.
Farms, gardens and roadsides.
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