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Tall Pepperwort/Perennial Pepperweed Lepidum latifolium Perennial EDRR Stiff, erect, multi-stemmed herbaceous plant with terminal flower cluster, up to 5’ high. Above ground parts begin to die back late summer or early fall. Plant has horseradish odor & taste. Where found: Salt marshes above high tide line, beaches, stream banks, floodplains, roadsides, ditches, fields. Leaves bright green to gray green, lance-shaped, smoothedged or toothed, 3 – 10” long. Basal leaves on stalks, toothed, up to 12” long & 3” wide. Stems gray-green, with semi-woody bases. Dead stems persist for years. Flowers dense white panicles, from early summer on. Fruit small flattened pods with 2 seeds, late summer & fall. Persist into winter. Similar native plant: None. Harpswell Invasive Plants Partnership, 2015 (4/2015) [Sources: Invasive Plant Atlas of New England; www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/lela1.htm]