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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

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Dry, disturbed soil
Elevation ca. 2000 m (ca. 6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
WY
[BONAP county map]
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.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae > Boechera
Sibling taxa
B. acutina, B. arcuata, B. atrorubens, B. bodiensis, B. breweri, B. burkii, B. calderi, B. californica, B. canadensis, B. cascadensis, B. cobrensis, B. collinsii, B. consanguinea, B. constancei, B. covillei, B. crandallii, B. cusickii, B. davidsonii, B. dentata, B. depauperata, B. dispar, B. divaricarpa, B. drepanoloba, B. duchesnensis, B. elkoensis, B. evadens, B. falcatoria, B. falcifructa, B. fecunda, B. fendleri, B. fernaldiana, B. formosa, B. glareosa, B. glaucovalvula, B. goodrichii, B. gracilenta, B. gracilipes, B. grahamii, B. gunnisoniana, B. harrisonii, B. hastatula, B. hoffmannii, B. holboellii, B. horizontalis, B. howellii, B. inyoensis, B. johnstonii, B. koehleri, B. laevigata, B. languida, B. lasiocarpa, B. lemmonii, B. lignifera, B. lincolnensis, B. lyallii, B. macounii, B. microphylla, B. missouriensis, B. nevadensis, B. ophira, B. oxylobula, B. paddoensis, B. pallidifolia, B. parishii, B. pauciflora, B. paupercula, B. peirsonii, B. pendulina, B. pendulocarpa, B. perennans, B. perstellata, B. pinetorum, B. pinzliae, B. platysperma, B. polyantha, B. porphyrea, B. pratincola, B. puberula, B. pulchra, B. pusilla, B. pygmaea, B. quebecensis, B. rectissima, B. repanda, B. retrofracta, B. rigidissima, B. rollei, B. rollinsiorum, B. rubicundula, B. saximontana, B. schistacea, B. serotina, B. serpenticola, B. shevockii, B. shockleyi, B. sparsiflora, B. spatifolia, B. stricta, B. subpinnatifida, B. suffrutescens, B. texana, B. tiehmii, B. tularensis, B. ultra-alsa, B. villosa, B. williamsii, B. xylopoda, B. yorkii
Synonyms Arabis fructicosa
Name authority (A. Nelson) Al-Shehbaz: Novon 13: 385. (2003)
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