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Braya glabella subsp. prostrata
Photo is of parent taxon

smooth northern-rockcress
Stems

decumbent to prostrate or weakly ascending, 0.3–1.5 dm.
Leaves

blade not fleshy, to 6 mm wide, margins usually entire.
Racemes

not elongated in fruit (often compact).
Fruits

oblong-elliptic to broadly oblong-lanceoloid, straight or curved, (0.7–)0.8–1.2 cm × 2.5–3.6 mm, 2.5–3.7 times as long as wide;

style stout, 0.8–1.8 mm.
2n

= 56.

Braya glabella subsp. prostrata
Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Dry or damp sand and silt on barren slopes and plains
Elevation 0-200 m (0-700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NU
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Subspecies prostrata is known only from Ellesmere Island.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 548.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Euclidieae > Braya > Braya glabella
Sibling taxa
B. glabella subsp. glabella, B. glabella subsp. purpurascens
Name authority J. G. Harris: Novon 16: 350. (2006)
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