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Yellowstone draba

flat-podded whitlow-grass

Habit Plants perennial, cespitose, often pulvinate, scapose; caudices many-branched, some terminated in sterile rosettes. Plants hirsute with simple and stalked, 2–4-rayed trichomes.
Stems

(1.5)4–14(21) cm; simple, pubescent with simple and 2–5-rayed or mostly subpectinate trichomes, sometimes glabrous distally.

(3)5–32(40) cm; simple or branched above base.

Basal leaves

rosulate, narrowly oblanceolate to linear; (4)6–17(25) × (1)1.5–3.5(5) mm;

margins entire, ciliate;

midveins usually obscure;

surfaces pubescent with short-stalked, pectinate trichomes; at least a few 4–6-rayed, adaxially sometimes glabrous.

obovate to spatulate or oblanceolate, 1–4.5 × 0.5–2.5(3) cm;

margins dentate;

petioles obscure.

Cauline leaves

absent or rarely 1, linear to oblong.

4–8(14), similar to basal.

Inflorescences

3–14(30)-flowered;

rachises straight, glabrous or pubescent, fruiting pedicels ascending; straight; (2.5)4–11(27) mm.

lax in fruit, 12–45(60)-flowered, pubescent, fruiting pedicels horizontal to divaricate, 4–9(11) mm.

Flowers

sepals ovate, 2.5–3.5(4) mm;

petals oblanceolate to obovate, 4–6 × 1.5–2.5 mm, yellow fading to white;

ovules 8–16(20) per ovary;

styles 0.2–0.9 mm.

sepals 1.4–2.2 mm, pubescent;

petals oblanceolate; (1.7)2.5–3.5(4) × 1–2 mm;

ovules (28)40–70(82) per ovary;

styles 0.01–0.2 mm.

Fruits

broadly ovate to lanceolate, flattened, untwisted, 5–9(11) × 2–4 mm, glabrous or puberulent with simple and 2-rayed trichomes.

silicles, obovate to obovate-oblong, 5–8.2(9.5) × (2.4)2.8–3.7(4) mm; widest above middle, pubescent with antrorse; simple trichomes.

Seeds

oblong, flattened, 1.1–1.5 × 0.7–1 mm; wingless.

0.5–0.7 × 0.3–0.5 mm.

2n

=112.

=16, 32.

Draba incerta

Tomostima platycarpa

Distribution
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Discussion

Rock outcrops, talus, gravelly areas. Flowering Jun–Aug. 2300–2500 m. BW. ID, NV, WA; north to AK, northeast to Northwest Territories, east to WY, southeast to CO, Quebec. Native.

Rocky hillsides, gravelly and sandy areas, dry plains, roadsides. Flowering Feb–Mar. 300–1000 m. BW. ID, WA; scattered in western and south central US, Mexico. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 480
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 521
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Sibling taxa
D. albertina, D. aureola, D. cana, D. crassifolia, D. cusickii, D. cyclomorpha, D. densifolia, D. howellii, D. lonchocarpa, D. nemorosa, D. novolympica, D. oligosperma, D. praealta, D. stenoloba, D. verna
T. platycarpa, T. reptans
Synonyms Draba incerta var. incerta Draba cuneifolia, Draba cuneifolia var. platycarpa, Draba platycarpa
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