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spear-head

Stems

5–15 dm, (stout).

Cauline leaves

petiole 6–15 cm (shorter distally);

blade deltate to lanceolate, lyrate, or sinuately lobed, or (distally) narrowly lanceolate, 5–20 cm × 30–70 mm (smaller distally), margins entire or subapically denticulate, apex acute.

Flowers

sepals yellowish green, 4–6 × 1–1.5 mm;

petals white, 5–7 mm, blade 2.5–4 × 0.5–1 mm, claw 2–3.5 × 1–1.7 mm, margins dentate or incised (sublaciniate);

filaments 5–9 mm;

anthers 2.5–3.5 mm;

gynophore (1–)2–8(–10) mm.

Fruiting pedicels

5–12 mm, (thicker than gynophore).

Fruits

divaricate, 4–13 cm × 1.5–2.5 mm;

style obsolete or, rarely, to 0.5 mm.

Seeds

brown, 3–5 × 1.7–2.2 mm;

wing to 0.7 mm wide.

Chlorocrambe hastata

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Mountain slopes, canyons, alder thickets, shady damp areas, stony and brushy hillsides
Elevation 1500-2800 m (4900-9200 ft)
Distribution
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ID; OR; UT
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Discussion

Chlorocrambe hastata is rare and known from only a few counties in Idaho (Washington County), Oregon (Baker and Wallowa counties), and Utah (Cache, Salt Lake, Utah, and Wasatch counties). It is easily distinguished from the other North American species of Brassicaceae by having yellowish green, reflexed flowers in lax racemes, hastate and petiolate cauline leaves, and fruits borne on distinct gynophores.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 686.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Chlorocrambe
Synonyms Caulanthus hastatus, Streptanthus hastatus
Name authority (S. Watson) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 34: 436. (1907)
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