Boechera subpinnatifida |
Boechera calderi |
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ashy rockcress |
Calder's rockcress |
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Habit | Plants long-lived perennial; with woody caudices. | Plants mostly short-lived perennial, glabrous except for leaves; with non-woody caudices. |
Stems | 1–4(5) dm; lower parts with short-stalked, 2–6-rayed trichomes; upper parts sparsely pubescent. |
1–4.5 dm, glabrous. |
Basal leaves | narrowly oblanceolate, 1–4(5) mm wide; margins prominently dentate to subpinnatifid; entire on those of sterile shoots; surfaces densely pubescent with short-stalked; (2)4–9-rayed trichomes, ciliate near petiole bases with simple or 2-rayed trichomes. |
usually oblanceolate, 1.5–6 mm wide; margins entire; surfaces sparsely pubescent with sessile, malpighiaceous and 3- or 4-rayed trichomes mostly restricted to margin, ciliate at petiole bases. |
Cauline leaves | (10)20–60, often concealing stem throughout, bases uppermost auriculate and sparsely to moderately pubescent. |
5–17, often concealing stem proximally, bases auriculate; margins entire; uppermost glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 8–30-flowered, fruiting pedicels reflexed, strongly recurved, 5–15 mm, with appressed, branched trichomes. |
10–25-flowered, unbranched, fruiting pedicels erect; straight, 5–10 mm, glabrous. |
Flowers | sexual, divaricate-ascending to pendent at anthesis; sepals glabrous; petals 9–14 × 1.5–3 mm, purple or rarely lavender; pollen ellipsoid; ovules 24–42 per ovary; styles 0.5–1 mm. |
apomictic; erect at anthesis; sepals glabrous; petals 6–9 × 1.5–2.5 mm, purple; pollen spheroid; ovules 64–134 per ovary; styles obsolete or rarely to 0.2 mm. |
Fruits | pendent, not appressed to rachis, not secund; straight to slightly curved; (3.5)5–8 cm × 2–3 mm; margins parallel, pubescent. |
erect, appressed to rachis, not secund; straight, 3.5–6.5 cm × 1.8–2.5 mm; margins parallel, glabrous. |
Seeds | uniseriate, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2.2 mm; wings continuous or at both ends, 0.4–0.8 mm wide. |
biseriate or subbiseriate, 1.8–2.2 × 1–1.8 mm; wings continuous, 0.2–0.5 mm wide. |
2n | =14. |
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Boechera subpinnatifida |
Boechera calderi |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Talus, rock outcrops, gravelly soil, sagebrush-grassland communities. Flowering Mar–Jun. 100–1800 m. Lava, Sisk. CA, ID, NV; southeast to UT. Native. |
Meadows, exposed rocky ridges, open forests near timberline. Flowering Jun–Aug. 2000–2900 m. BR, BW. CA, ID, WA; north to Yukon, northeast to Northwest Territories, east to MT, WY. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 457 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 449 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Arabis subpinnatifida | Arabis lyallii, Arabis lyallii var. lyallii |
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