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hoary rockcress

spreading-pod rockcress

Habit Plants short-lived perennial; with non-woody caudices. Plants biennial or short-lived perennial; without woody caudices.
Stems

(1)2–6.3 dm, pubescent with many short-stalked, 3–8-rayed trichomes.

(1.5)3–9 dm; lower parts glabrous or with sessile, 2–4-rayed and few simple trichomes; upper parts glabrous.

Basal leaves

oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 1.5–5 mm wide;

margins usually dentate, not ciliate;

surfaces densely pubescent with short-stalked, 5–12-rayed trichomes.

oblanceolate, 2–10 mm wide;

margins entire or rarely denticulate, ciliate with simple trichomes;

surfaces pubescent with sessile or subsessile, 2–6-rayed trichomes.

Cauline leaves

7–45(65), concealing stem proximally, bases of some leaves auriculate; uppermost pubescent.

(10)15–56, concealing stem proximally, bases auriculate; uppermost glabrous.

Inflorescences

10–40(64)-flowered, fruiting pedicels arched, recurved above horizontal to ascending bases, 4–10 mm, with appressed, branched trichomes.

12–40(65)-flowered, fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending to horizontal; straight, 5–12 mm, glabrous.

Flowers

sexual, ascending to descending at anthesis;

sepals pubescent;

petals 5–9 × 0.8–1.8 mm, white to lavender;

pollen ellipsoid;

ovules 38–64 per ovary;

styles 0.01–0.1 mm.

apomictic, divaricate-ascending at anthesis;

sepals glabrous or with scattered trichomes;

petals 6–9 × 1.5–3 mm, purple or rarely lavender;

pollen spheroid;

ovules 114–142 per ovary;

styles 0.05–0.2 mm.

Fruits

closely pendent, rarely appressed to rachis, not secund, mostly straight, 3–6.5 cm × 1.9–2.2 mm;

margins parallel, pubescent.

divaricate-ascending to horizontal, not appressed to rachis, not secund; straight; (4.5)5.5–11 cm × 1.7–2.5 mm;

margins parallel, glabrous.

Seeds

uniseriate, 1.4–1.8 × 1–1.4 mm;

wings continuous, 0.1–0.3 mm wide.

uniseriate to subbiseriate, 1.4–2 × 1–1.5 mm;

wings continuous, 0.1–0.2 mm wide.

2n

=14.

=21.

Boechera puberula

Boechera divaricarpa

Distribution
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Discussion

Rocky slopes, ledges, gravelly hillsides in sagebrush, pinyon-juniper forests. Flowering Apr–Jul. 800–3000 m. BR, BW, Casc, ECas, Lava, Owy. CA, ID, NV, WA; southeast to UT. Native.

Talus slopes, rock outcrops, gravelly hillsides in sagebrush, shrublands, open conifer forests. Flowering Jun–Jul. 1500–2800 m. BR, BW, Casc, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; northeast to MT, east to WY. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 456
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 451
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Sibling taxa
B. acutina, B. atrorubens, B. breweri, B. calderi, B. cascadensis, B. cobrensis, B. covillei, B. cusickii, B. davidsonii, B. divaricarpa, B. drepanoloba, B. hastatula, B. horizontalis, B. howellii, B. koehleri, B. lemmonii, B. lyallii, B. microphylla, B. paddoensis, B. pauciflora, B. paupercula, B. pendulocarpa, B. pinetorum, B. platysperma, B. pratincola, B. rectissima, B. retrofracta, B. rollei, B. sparsiflora, B. stricta, B. subpinnatifida, B. suffrutescens
B. acutina, B. atrorubens, B. breweri, B. calderi, B. cascadensis, B. cobrensis, B. covillei, B. cusickii, B. davidsonii, B. drepanoloba, B. hastatula, B. horizontalis, B. howellii, B. koehleri, B. lemmonii, B. lyallii, B. microphylla, B. paddoensis, B. pauciflora, B. paupercula, B. pendulocarpa, B. pinetorum, B. platysperma, B. pratincola, B. puberula, B. rectissima, B. retrofracta, B. rollei, B. sparsiflora, B. stricta, B. subpinnatifida, B. suffrutescens
Synonyms Arabis puberula Arabis x divaricarpa, Arabis x divaricarpa var. divaricarpa
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