Lepidium chalepense Linnaeus, Cent. Pl. II, 23. 1756; C. boissieri (N. Busch) Soó; Cardaria chalepensis (Linnaeus) Handel-Mazzetti; C. draba subsp. chalepensis var. repens (Schrenk) O. E. Schulz; C. fenestrata (Boissier) Rollins; C. macrocarpa (Franchet) Rollins; C. propinqua (Fischer & C. A. Meyer) N. Busch; C. repens (Schrenk) Jarmolenko; Cochlearia draba (Linnaeus) Linnaeus; Hymenophysa fenestrata Boissier; H. macrocarpa Franchet; H. persica Gilli; L. boissieri N. Busch; L. draba var. auriculatum (Boissier) N. Busch; L. draba subsp. chalepense (Linnaeus) Thellung; L. draba subsp. chalepense var. repens (Schrenk) Thellung; L. propinquum Fischer & C. A. Meyer; L. propinquum var. auriculatum Boissier; L. repens (Schrenk) Boissier; Physolepidion repens Schrenk.

Fruit rounded, obtuse, or truncate at base, usually not constricted at septum; valves not or obscurely reticulate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent when young. 2n = 48, 80, 128.

Presently treated by Ihsan Al-Shehbaz as Lepidium chalepense Linnaeus.

Mountain slopes, roadsides, fields, agricultural lands, river banks, pastures, waste areas; 300-4200 m. Gansu, Shandong, Xinjiang, Xizang [Afghanistan, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; SW Asia; naturalized in Europe and North and South America].