Draba graminea |
Draba santaquinensis |
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Rocky Mountain Draba |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); caudex simple or branched (with persistent leaf bases); not scapose. | Biennials or perennials; (short-lived); caudex simple (poorly developed, without persistent leaf bases); not scapose. |
Stems | unbranched, 0.1–0.5(–0.8) dm, usually pubescent throughout, rarely glabrous, trichomes simple or subsessile, 2-rayed or spurred, (crisped), 0.1–0.5 mm. |
usually branched, 1.1–3.4 dm, hirsute proximally, trichomes mostly simple and 2-rayed, 0.2–1.5 mm, pubescent distally, trichomes mostly 2- or 3-rayed, 0.2–1 mm. |
Basal leaves | rosulate; petiolate; petiole ciliate, (trichomes usually straight and simple, rarely also 2-rayed, 0.2–0.6(–0.8) mm); blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, (0.5–)1–4 cm × 0.3–2(–3) mm, margins entire (pubescent as petiole), surfaces glabrous. |
rosulate; petiole (obscure), ciliate, (trichomes simple and 2-rayed); blade obovate to oblanceolate, 1.6–2.5 cm × 5–10 mm, margins usually entire, rarely denticulate, surfaces pubescent, abaxially with stalked, mostly cruciform trichomes, 0.5–1 mm, adaxially with simple and stalked, 2–4-rayed ones. |
Cauline leaves | (1–)3–9(–12) (as bracts); sessile; blade linear to oblanceolate or lanceolate, margins entire, (ciliate proximally, similar to basal). |
usually 1–5; sessile or subsessile; blade oblanceolate to oblong, margins often denticulate, (ciliate proximally, with 2- or 3-rayed trichomes). |
Racemes | 3–15-flowered, bracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, usually pubescent as stem, rarely glabrous. |
9–25-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, pubescent, trichomes 2- or 3-rayed. |
Flowers | sepals ovate, 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous or pubescent, (trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2-rayed); petals yellow, spatulate to obovate, 3–5 × 1.5–3 mm; anthers ovate, 0.3–0.5 mm. |
sepals oblong-obovate, 2–3.5 mm, pubescent, (trichomes short- to long-stalked, 2–4-rayed, 0.2–0.8 mm); petals yellow (often fading whitish), oblanceolate, 3–5 × 1–1.5 mm; anthers ovate, 0.4–0.5 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, usually straight, rarely curved upward, 3–10(–15) mm, usually pubescent as stem, rarely glabrous. |
horizontal to divaricate-ascending, usually straight, rarely curved upward, 7–10 mm, pubescent, trichomes 2- or 3-rayed. |
Fruits | ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, slightly twisted or plane, flattened, 5–11 × 2.5–5 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 8–16 per ovary; style 0.2–0.7 mm. |
narrowly elliptic to slightly falcate, plane, flattened, (7–)10–16 × (2–)2.5–3.7 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, 2–4-rayed, 0.2–0.5 mm; ovules 14–22 per ovary; style 0.9–1.2 mm. |
Seeds | ovoid, 1.2–1.5 × 0.7–1 mm. |
oblong, 1.1–1.5 × 0.7–0.9 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 20. |
Draba graminea |
Draba santaquinensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering late Apr-early Jun. |
Habitat | Rocky areas and ridges, alpine tundra, gravel bars in streams | Limestone outcrops and rocky slopes in mixed conifer communities |
Elevation | 3000-4100 m (9800-13500 ft) | 1800-2400 m (5900-7900 ft) |
Distribution |
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UT |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Draba graminea is occasionally confused with D. crassa, which occupies similar habitats and elevations. It is easily distinguished from the latter by having narrower [0.3–2(–3) versus 2.5–8(–10) mm wide] basal leaves and bracteate (versus ebracteate) racemes. It is known to us only from Hinsdale, La Plata, Ouray, San Juan, and San Miguel counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Although Draba santaquinensis was included within D. brachystylis by previous authors, I. A. Al-Shehbaz and M. D. Windham (2007) have shown that it is distinct both morphologically and chromosomally. It is currently known only from Utah County (American Fork, Provo, and Santaquin canyons) in north-central Utah. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 309. | FNA vol. 7, p. 334. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Arabideae > Draba | Brassicaceae > tribe Arabideae > Draba |
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Synonyms | Braya graminea, D. chrysantha var. graminea, D. chrysantha var. hirticaulis | |
Name authority | Greene: Pl. Baker. 3: 5. (1901) | Windham & Allphin: Harvard Pap. Bot. 12: 410. (2007) |
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