Boechera subpinnatifida |
Boechera paupercula |
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ashy rockcress |
small-flowered rockcress |
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Habit | Plants long-lived perennial; with woody caudices. | Plants long-lived perennial, cespitose; often with woody caudices. |
Stems | 1–4(5) dm; lower parts with short-stalked, 2–6-rayed trichomes; upper parts sparsely pubescent. |
0.3–1.5 dm; lower parts with abundant simple and short-stalked, 2–4-rayed trichomes; upper parts glabrous or sparsely pubescent. |
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. |
linear-oblanceolate, 1–3(5) mm wide; margins entire, ciliate proximally, densely pubescent with simple and short-stalked, 2–6-rayed trichomes. |
Cauline leaves | (10)20–60, often concealing stem throughout, bases uppermost auriculate and sparsely to moderately pubescent. |
2–6, rarely concealing stem, not or rarely auriculate; uppermost glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 8–30-flowered, fruiting pedicels reflexed, strongly recurved, 5–15 mm, with appressed, branched trichomes. |
3–8-flowered, fruiting pedicels erect; straight, 3–9 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. |
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. |
sexual; erect at anthesis; sepals glabrous or sparsely pubescent; petals 4–6(7) × 1–2 mm, lavender to purplish; pollen ellipsoid; ovules 24–40 per ovary; styles 0.2–1 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, 2.5–5.5 cm × 1.5–1.7(2) 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. |
uniseriate or rarely subbiseriate, 1.5–2(2.5) × 1–1.4 mm; wings continuous, 0.3–1 mm wide. |
2n | =14. |
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Boechera subpinnatifida |
Boechera paupercula |
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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. |
Talus slopes, gravelly soil, rocky outcrops. Flowering May–Sep. 2300–2800 m. BR, BW. CA, ID, WA; east to WY. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 457 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 454 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Arabis subpinnatifida | Arabis lyallii, Arabis lyallii var. nubigena |
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