Lepidium alyssoides, July 15, 2020
Common & scientific name
Mesa pepperweed, Lepidium alyssoides
Family
Mustard, Brassicaceae
Location
Twin Lakes roadside, 9,300’
Fun, weird, helpful, or little known fact
Likes disturbed soil (like roadsides), and have never seen it on the west side of the Pass—prefers sagebrush communities, which Twin Lakes, even at an elevation of 9,300’, has in spades, owing to the rain shadow from the mountains along the Continental Divide.