HerbWildAnnual

Lepidium didymum L.

Jangli Haloon

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Description

Lepidium didymum is a low-growing annual herb, usually 5–30 cm tall, with much-branched prostrate stems. Leaves are alternate, pinnately divided, and strongly aromatic when crushed. Flowers are tiny, greenish-white, arranged in short racemes. Fruits are small, two-lobed compressed silicles with a shallow notch at the apex.

Diagnostic Characters

Vegetative

Prostrate aromatic herb with finely divided leaves.

Floral

Tiny greenish-white flowers.

Fruit & Seed

Small two-lobed compressed fruits.

Distribution

Native range: South America.

Introduced range: Widely naturalized worldwide.

In Pakistan: Common throughout Pakistan.

Phenology

Flowering

Fruiting

Flowering: January–April Fruiting: February–May

Ethnobotany & Uses

Uses

Young leaves are occasionally eaten as salad greens. Used traditionally for coughs and digestive disorders. A common weed of lawns and cultivated land.

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Where it grows on campus

This species is on the campus floristic list but was not pinned during the GPS mapping survey, so it has no map records yet.

Taxonomic Notes

This species was traditionally known as Lepidium didymum, but most modern treatments recognize Lepidium didymum as the accepted name. It is readily identified by its prostrate habit and aromatic foliage.