Draba heilii |
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Habit | Perennials; (densely cespitose); caudex few-branched (compact, with persistent, thickened leaves); not scapose. |
Stems | unbranched or branched distally, 0.3–0.7 dm, glabrous throughout or, rarely, pilose, trichomes simple and stalked, 2-rayed, 0.2–0.5 mm. |
Basal leaves | (persistent, imbricate); rosulate; undifferentiated into blade and petiole (becoming indurate at base); blade linear-lanceolate, 0.5–0.8 cm × 1–1.5(–2) mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous or, rarely, pilose with simple and stalked, 2-rayed trichomes, (margins ciliate with simple and, rarely, 2-rayed setiform trichomes, 0.5–1.3 mm, midvein prominent). |
Cauline leaves | 6–8; sessile; blade linear-oblong, 0.5–0.8 cm × 1–2 mm (widest about base), margins entire, (ciliate). |
Racemes | 10–26-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent, (trichomes non-crisped, simple and 2-rayed). |
Flowers | sepals ovate, 1.7–2.7 mm, usually glabrous, rarely pilose, (trichomes simple); petals yellow, oblong-oblanceolate, 4–6 × 1.5–2 mm; anthers oblong, 0.5–0.6 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | ascending, straight, 3–5(–7) mm, usually glabrous, rarely pilose, (trichomes simple and 2-rayed, stalked). |
Fruits | narrowly lanceolate, twisted 1/2 turn or plane, flattened, 7–10 × 1.3–1.6 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 16–20 per ovary; style 0.7–1.3 mm. |
Seeds | ovoid, 1 × 0.6 mm. |
Draba heilii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Alpine tundra |
Elevation | ca. 3700 m (ca. 12100 ft) |
Distribution |
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Discussion | Draba heilii is restricted to Mora and Rio Arriba counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 311. |
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Name authority | Al-Shehbaz: Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 83, fig. 1. (2009) |
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