Lepidium africanum

Botanical Description

Lepidium africanum is an erect or straggling, usually much-branched, annual to perennial plant with stems that can become more or less woody; it can grow 15 - 100cm tall[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. The plant has become a widespread weed of warm temperate to tropical regions[ 305 Title Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk Publication Author Website http://www.hear.org/pier/scientificnames/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very good website detailing weed species that have been introduced into the Pacific Islands. ]. It is often found in Europe and is a weed of cultivated land and natural land in Australia