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goldentuft

Habit Plants slightly woody at base; finely stellate-pubescent.
Stems

usually several, 1.5–6 dm.

Basal leaves

petiole 0.3–2.5(–3.5) cm;

blade obovate-oblong, 2.5–8 cm × 3–10 mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins entire, sinuate, or pinnatifid, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces densely pubescent.

Cauline leaves

blade oblanceolate to linear.

Racemes

considerably elongated in fruit.

Flowers

sepals yellowish, 1.5–2 × 0.5–1 mm, scarious at margins, finely pubescent;

petals 3–4.5 × 1.2–2 mm, attenuate to clawlike base;

filaments with basal wing or appendage to 0.5 mm, 1.2–2 mm;

anthers 0.3–0.5 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

3–8 mm.

Fruits

divaricate-ascending, ellipsoid to obovoid, inflated at middle, slightly flattened at margin, 3–6 × 2–4 mm;

style slender.

Seeds

winged throughout, 1.5–1.8 mm diam.;

wing 0.1–0.3 mm wide.

2n

= 16.

Aurinia petraea

Phenology Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat Cliffs, gorges, rocky slopes
Distribution
from FNA
NY; s Europe [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Aurinia petraea is cultivated as an ornamental and is known to be naturalized in the gorge, Oneida (near Trenton Falls) and Ulster counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 251.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Alysseae > Aurinia
Sibling taxa
A. saxatilis
Synonyms Alyssum petraeum
Name authority (Arduino) Schur: Enum. Pl. Transsilv., 61. (1866)
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