Boechera paddoensis |
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Mount Adams rock-cress, Mt. Adams rock-cress |
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Habit | Perennials; long-lived; (cespitose); apomictic; caudex usually woody. |
Stems | 1–3 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, or arising laterally proximal to sterile shoots, 1–2.5 dm, glabrous throughout. |
Basal leaves | blade narrowly oblanceolate, 1–3(–6) mm wide, margins usually entire, rarely apically few-toothed, not ciliate, surfaces sparsely pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, 4–8-rayed, 0.08–0.2 mm. |
Cauline leaves | 4–8, not concealing stem; blade auricles 1–2 mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves glabrous. |
Racemes | 5–12(–18)-flowered, usually unbranched. |
Flowers | ascending at anthesis; sepals glabrous; petals lavender to purple, 4–5.5 × 1–1.5 mm, glabrous; pollen spheroid. |
Fruiting pedicels | usually divaricate-ascending, rarely horizontal, straight, 2–5(–10) mm, glabrous. |
Fruits | usually divaricate-ascending, rarely horizontal, not appressed to rachis, secund (often weakly so), straight, edges parallel, 3–5.5 cm × 1.5–2 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 42–54 per ovary; style 0.05–0.1 mm. |
Seeds | uniseriate, 1.1–1.5 × 0.9–1.3 mm; wing continuous, 0.1–0.3 mm wide. |
Boechera paddoensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Rocky ridges |
Elevation | 1500-2100 m (4900-6900 ft) |
Distribution |
OR; WA
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Discussion | Morphological evidence suggests that Boechera paddoensis is an apomictic species that arose through hybridization between B. lemmonii and B. lyallii (see M. D. Windham and I. A. Al-Shehbaz 2007 for detailed comparison). Boechera paddoensis is known only from the mountains of central Washington and northeastern Oregon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 392. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae > Boechera |
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Synonyms | Arabis lemmonii var. paddoensis |
Name authority | (Rollins) Windham & Al-Shehbaz: Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 268. (2007) |
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