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many flowered thelypody

Habit Glabrous and glaucous biennial, the stem often hollow, usually freely-branched, 3-25 dm. tall.
Leaves

Leaves rather fleshy, the basal ovate to deltoid-lanceolate, 1-4.5 dm. long, long-petiolate, sharply and deeply lobed;

cauline leaves alternate, numerous, reduced upward, pinnatifid to nearly entire.

Flowers

Inflorescence of bractless, elongate racemes; pedicles stout, 2-5 mm. long, erect-ascending;

sepals 4, erect, 3.5-7 mm. long, white, not saccate at the base;

petal 4, white, 6-20 mm. long, linear to narrowly spatulate;

stamens 6, the filaments flattened, distinct, shorter than the sepals;

style 1-3 mm. long.

Fruits

Siliques erect, straight to strongly curved, 3-6 cm. long and about 1 mm. thick, on a stipe 1-4 mm. long;

seeds in 1 series.

Thelypodium brachycarpum

Thelypodium milleflorum

Flowering time April-July
Habitat Rock cliffs and dry, rocky areas in sagebrush desert.
Distribution
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to Nevada, east to Idaho.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
T. howellii, T. integrifolium, T. laciniatum, T. milleflorum, T. sagittatum
T. howellii, T. integrifolium, T. laciniatum, T. sagittatum
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