Boechera fructicosa |
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Habit | Perennials; short-lived; apomictic; caudex usually not woody. |
Stems | 3 to many per caudex branch, arising from margin of rosette near ground surface, 3.5–6 dm, pubescent proximally, trichomes short-stalked, 2–4-rayed, 0.2–0.3 mm, glabrous distally. |
Basal leaves | blade oblanceolate, 3–7 mm wide, margins dentate, ciliate proximally, trichomes (simple), to 0.3 mm, surfaces pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, 4–8-rayed, 0.05–0.2 mm. |
Cauline leaves | 5–10, not concealing stem; blade auricles 0.5–1 mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves glabrous. |
Racemes | 10–18-flowered, usually unbranched. |
Flowers | divaricate-ascending at anthesis; sepals pubescent; petals lavender, 4–6 × 1–1.5 mm, glabrous; pollen spheroid. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-descending, straight, 5–10 mm, glabrous. |
Fruits | divaricate-descending, not appressed to rachis, not secund, curved, edges parallel, 4–6 cm × 1.5–1.8 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 60–70 per ovary; style 0.1–0.4 mm. |
Seeds | uniseriate, 1.5–2 × 1–1.3 mm; wing distal, ca. 0.1 mm wide. |
Boechera fructicosa |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Dry, disturbed soil |
Elevation | ca. 2000 m (ca. 6600 ft) |
Distribution |
WY |
Discussion | Boechera fructicosa is known only from the type collection (A. & E. Nelson 5681) taken near Undine Falls in Park County. Multiple plants are represented (comprising the holotype and four isotypes), though one specimen with the same number at RM is B. stricta. Although the exact parentage of this apomictic hybrid remains in doubt, it is virtually certain that B. microphylla contributed at least one genome. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 379. |
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Synonyms | Arabis fructicosa |
Name authority | (A. Nelson) Al-Shehbaz: Novon 13: 385. (2003) |
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