Brassicaceae
Creeping wart cress
Lepidium coronopus
Also known as Lepidium squamatum, Coronopus squamatus var. depressus, Coronopus depressus, Crucifera ruellii
Native Plants · Wart Cress · Ground Cover · Brassicaceae · Wildflower · Foraging · Low Maintenance · Spreading · Perennial · Medicinal · Weedy
Creeping wart cress is a low-growing, spreading perennial that thrives in disturbed soils, roadsides, and garden edges with partial shade to full sun. It requires minimal care and tolerates a range of soil conditions, making it a resilient ground-cover weed. This plant is rarely cultivated intentionally but can be of interest to foragers and wildflower enthusiasts.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, allowing soil to partially dry between waterings · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Cutting
Hardiness
USDA 5a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 6 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Chile South, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., Egypt
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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