Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( White ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Southern pepperwort, southern pepperweed, southern peppergrass (Lepidium austrinum), Brassicaceae Family, native, annual.biennial, blooms from February through May

The southern pepperwort (Lepidium austrinum) is also known as southern pepperweed and southern peppergrass. An erect plant which attains a mature height of about twenty inches, it grows in loamy or sandy soils of the South Texas Plains and Edwards Plateau Regions. The stem is hairy and the leaves are toothed. They vary in size as they go up the stem. The basal leaves reach a length of 3 1/2 inches and upper leaves reach about 3/4 of an inch. It produces small white flowers from February to May and is considered a cool weather plant.

Distribution:
http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=Texas&statefip...

Distribution by vegetative regions:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/vpt_map_name?reg=2,4,5,6,...

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/82931/index.html

Just starting to bloom as seen as the sun is setting behind it:..One can clearly see the rays of sunlight illuminating it as well as other plants in the background.