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Boechera subpinnatifida

ashy rockcress

Calder's rockcress

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.

Boechera subpinnatifida

Boechera calderi

Distribution
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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
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. puberula, B. rectissima, B. retrofracta, B. rollei, B. sparsiflora, B. stricta, B. suffrutescens
B. acutina, B. atrorubens, B. breweri, 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. puberula, B. rectissima, B. retrofracta, B. rollei, B. sparsiflora, B. stricta, B. subpinnatifida, B. suffrutescens
Synonyms Arabis subpinnatifida Arabis lyallii, Arabis lyallii var. lyallii
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