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Photo is of parent taxon

smooth northern-rockcress

Photo is of parent taxon

smooth braya, smooth northern-rockcress

Stems

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

ascending to erect, 0.5–1.7(–2.3) dm.

Leaves

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

blade often somewhat fleshy, to 4 mm wide, margins often entire, sometimes 1 or 2 weak teeth per side.

Racemes

not elongated in fruit (often compact).

often loosely elongated in fruit.

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.

oblong to narrowly oblong-lanceoloid, often curved, (0.3–)0.5–1.2(–1.5) cm × (0.8–)1.1–3(–3.6) mm, 3.5–8.3 times as long as wide;

style slender or stout, (0.3–)0.5–1.6(–2) mm.

2n

= 56.

= 56.

Braya glabella subsp. prostrata

Braya glabella subsp. glabella

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul. Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Dry or damp sand and silt on barren slopes and plains Barren, usually calcareous soils and gravel, gravel bars, disturbed sites, lake and sea shores, scree slopes, solifluction lobes
Elevation 0-200 m (0-700 ft) 0-3700 m (0-12100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NU
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AK; CO; MT; WY; AB; BC; NT; NU; QC; YT; Asia
[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. FNA vol. 7, p. 548.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Euclidieae > Braya > Braya glabella Brassicaceae > tribe Euclidieae > Braya > Braya glabella
Sibling taxa
B. glabella subsp. glabella, B. glabella subsp. purpurascens
B. glabella subsp. prostrata, B. glabella subsp. purpurascens
Synonyms B. alpina var. americana, B. americana, B. bartlettiana, B. bartlettiana var. vestita, B. henryae, B. humilis var. americana
Name authority J. G. Harris: Novon 16: 350. (2006) unknown
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