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Habit Perennials; long-lived; sexual; caudex woody.
Stems

usually 3–5 per caudex branch, arising from margin of rosette, elevated above ground surface on woody base, 1–2.5 dm, densely pubescent proximally, trichomes short-stalked, 2–4 (or 5)-rayed, 0.2–0.4 mm, moderately to sparsely pubescent distally.

Basal leaves

blade oblanceolate, 3–5 mm wide, margins entire, ciliate proximally, trichomes (simple), to 0.6 mm, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, 2–4 (or 5)-rayed, 0.15–0.4 mm.

Cauline leaves

5–9, not concealing stem;

blade auricles 0.5–1 mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves sparsely to moderately pubescent.

Racemes

5–11-flowered, usually unbranched.

Flowers

divaricate-ascending at anthesis;

sepals pubescent;

petals pale purple, 6–8 × 1.5–2 mm, glabrous;

pollen ellipsoid.

Fruiting pedicels

descending, straight to slightly recurved, 4–6 mm, pubescent, trichomes appressed, branched.

Fruits

(immature) pendent, not appressed to rachis, not secund, straight, edges parallel;

valves glabrous.

Seeds

not seen.

Boechera rollinsiorum

Phenology Flowering Jun.
Habitat Metamorphosed igneous gravel on steep slopes
Elevation ca. 2100 m (ca. 6900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Boechera rollinsiorum shows superficial similarities to both B. glareosa and B. lasiocarpa (see M. D. Windham and I. A. Al-Shehbaz 2006 for detailed comparison). It is known thus far only from the type collection below Galena Summit in central Idaho.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 403.
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. fructicosa, 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. 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
Name authority Windham & Al-Shehbaz: Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 81. (2006)
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