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Anelsonia eurycarpa

broad pod anelsonia, broad pod phoenicaulis, daggerpod
Habit Plants with caudex multi-stemmed, ultimate slender stems covered by persistent petiolar remains, terminating in rosettes; sparsely to densely pubescent.
Stems

1–4 cm (leafless).
Basal leaves

tufted;

petiole persistent becoming stramineous, 0.5–1 cm;

blades narrowly oblanceolate to broadly linear, 0.5–1.8 cm × 1–2 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, apex obtuse.
Flowers

sepals purple, 4–5 × 1.5–2 mm;

petals 4.5–6 × 1.7–2.3 mm;

filaments 3.5–4.5 mm;

anthers 0.5–0.7 mm;

gynophore obsolete or to 1 mm.
Fruiting pedicels

4–15 mm, pilose.
Fruits

1.5–3 cm × 5–9 mm;

valves purplish, often glaucous, base obtuse, apex acute to acuminate;

style 1–2 mm.
Seeds

brown, 2–3 × 1.2–1.5 mm.
2n

= 14.

Anelsonia eurycarpa
Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Rock slides of metamorphics, whitish ash, subalpine and alpine ridges, rock and talus slides, disintegrated volcanic rock
Elevation 1600-4000 m (5200-13100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; NV
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Discussion

Anelsonia eurycarpa has been collected from multiple counties in California; in Nevada it is known only from Washoe County and in Idaho only from Blaine and Custer counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 348.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae > Anelsonia
Synonyms Draba eurycarpa, Parrya eurycarpa, Parrya huddelliana, Phoenicaulis eurycarpa
Name authority (A. Gray) J. F. Macbride & Payson: Bot. Gaz. 64: 81. (1917)
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