Boechera collinsii |
Boechera davidsonii |
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collin's suncress, Collins' rockcress |
Davidson's rock-cress |
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Habit | Perennials; usually short-lived; sexual; caudex not woody. | Perennials; long-lived; (cespitose); sexual; caudex woody (thickly covered by persistent, crowded leaf bases). |
Stems | usually 1 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, (1.5–)2.5–8 dm, densely pubescent proximally, trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2-rayed, to 1 mm, sparsely pubescent or glabrous distally. |
usually 1 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, 0.6–2.3 dm, glabrous throughout. |
Basal leaves | blade oblanceolate, 1–7 mm wide, margins entire or dentate, ciliate along petiole, trichomes (simple), to 0.7 mm, surfaces moderately to densely pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, 5–8-rayed, 0.15–0.4 mm. |
blade oblanceolate, 3.5–14 mm wide, margins usually entire, rarely slightly dentate, not ciliate, surfaces glabrous. |
Cauline leaves | (8–)15–40, concealing stem proximally; blade auricles 1–3 mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves usually sparsely pubescent. |
3–10, not concealing stem; blade auricles absent, glabrous. |
Racemes | (15–)30–90-flowered, usually unbranched. |
4–24-flowered, usually unbranched. |
Flowers | descending to pendent at anthesis; sepals pubescent; petals usually white, rarely lavender, 4–6 × 0.8–1.5 mm, glabrous; pollen ellipsoid. |
ascending at anthesis; sepals glabrous; petals white to lavender, 6–10 × 2.5–4 mm, glabrous; pollen ellipsoid. |
Fruiting pedicels | reflexed, abruptly recurved at base, otherwise straight, 4–13 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, trichomes usually simple. |
ascending, straight, 3–18 mm, glabrous. |
Fruits | strongly reflexed, usually appressed to rachis, rarely somewhat secund, straight, edges parallel, 3.5–6 cm × 0.9–1.5 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 70–126 per ovary; style 0.2–0.5 mm. |
ascending to divaricate-ascending, not appressed to rachis, not secund, straight to slightly curved, edges parallel, 2.5–7 cm × 1.5–2.5 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 28–50 per ovary; style 0.1–0.8 mm. |
Seeds | uniseriate, 1–1.4 × 0.8–1 mm; wing continuous (rarely absent), to 0.1 mm wide. |
uniseriate, 1.8–2.2 × 0.8–1.7 mm; wing distal or continuous, 0.1–0.5 mm wide. |
2n | = 14. |
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Boechera collinsii |
Boechera davidsonii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Rocky and gravelly hillsides, prairies, open woods, floodplains | Ledges and crevices of rock outcrops |
Elevation | 600-1400 m (2000-4600 ft) | 1200-3400 m (3900-11200 ft) |
Distribution |
ID; MN; MT; ND; NE; SD; WY; AB; MB; QC; SK
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CA; NV; OR
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Discussion | Though often treated as a variety of Arabis (Boechera) holboellii (e.g., R. C. Rollins 1993; G. A. Mulligan 1996), B. collinsii is easily distinguished from that species by having simple and 2-rayed (versus 4–8-rayed) trichomes proximally on stems, and narrower (0.9–1.5 versus 2–2.5 mm) usually non-secund fruits. The two taxa also show allopatric distributions, with B. collinsii found on the North American continent (usually east of the Rocky Mountains) and B. holboellii apparently confined to Greenland. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Plants of Boechera davidsonii sometimes are confused with completely glabrous individuals of B. lyallii, and G. A. Mulligan (1996) treated it as a synonym of the latter. It is easily distinguished from B. lyallii by the thick covering of persistent leaf bases on caudex branches, ascending (versus erect and appressed) fruits, and uniseriate (versus biseriate to sub-biseriate) seeds. Boechera davidsonii is nearly unique among western North American species of the genus in showing no evidence of hybridization with other species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 370. | FNA vol. 7, p. 372. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae > Boechera | Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae > Boechera |
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Synonyms | Arabis collinsii, Arabis holboellii var. collinsii, Arabis retrofracta var. collinsii | Arabis davidsonii, Arabis bruceae, Arabis cognata, Arabis davidsonii var. parva, Arabis lyallii var. davidsonii |
Name authority | (Fernald) Á. Löve & D. Löve: Taxon 31: 125. (1982) | (Greene) N. H. Holmgren: in A. Cronquist et al., Intermount. Fl. 2(B): 368. (2005) |
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