Draba hitchcockii |
Draba cyclomorpha |
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lost river Draba |
granite Draba, Lemmon's Draba |
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Habit | Perennials; (densely cespitose); caudex branched (densely covered with persistent leaves, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); scapose. | Perennials; (cespitose, not pulvinate); caudex branched (with persistent petiole remains, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); scapose. |
Stems | unbranched, (0.1–)0.3–1(–1.3) dm, hirsute throughout, trichomes simple, 0.4–1 mm, and 2–4-rayed, 0.1–0.6 mm. |
unbranched, 0.1–0.6(–1) dm, (thinly) pilose throughout, trichomes simple and stalked, 2- (or 3-)rayed, (often crisped), 0.1–0.8 mm. |
Basal leaves | (densely imbricate); rosulate; sessile; blade narrowly oblanceolate to oblong-linear, 0.3–1.2(–1.5) cm × 1–2 mm, margins entire, (ciliate, trichomes simple, 0.3–1.2 mm), surfaces pubescent abaxially with stalked, 2–4-rayed trichomes, 0.08–0.45 mm, (midvein obscure), adaxially glabrous proximally, sparsely pubescent distally with mostly simple trichomes. |
rosulate; shortly petiolate; petiole base and margin ciliate, (trichomes simple, 0.2–1 mm); blade (somewhat fleshy), oblanceolate to obovate, 0.4–1 cm × 2–5 mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous or hirsute, abaxially usually with stalked, 2-rayed trichomes, 0.1–0.6 mm, rarely with fewer, simple ones, (midvein obscure), adaxially with almost exclusively simple trichomes, to 0.6 mm. |
Cauline leaves | 0. |
0. |
Racemes | 4–15-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, hirsute as stem. |
5–14(–20)-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, pubescent as stem. |
Flowers | sepals oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm, hirsute, (trichomes simple and stalked, 2–4-rayed); petals white, obovate, 5–6.5 × 2–3.5 mm; anthers ovate, 0.5–0.6 mm. |
sepals ovate, 1.5–2.2 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2-rayed); petals yellow, spatulate, 4–5.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm; anthers oblong, 0.6–0.7 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | ascending, straight, (2–)4–13(–18) mm, hirsute as stem. |
horizontal to divaricate-ascending, often curved upward or straight, 3–8(–10) mm, pilose as stem. |
Fruits | ovate to broadly oblong or elliptic, plane, flattened, (3–)4–7(–10) × (2.5–)3.5–5 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2(–4)-rayed, 0.06–0.5 mm; ovules 8–12 per ovary; style (0.8–)1–1.7(–2) mm. |
oblong to oblong-ovate, plane, flattened, 3.5–9 × 2.5–4 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 8–12 per ovary; style 0.3–1 mm. |
Seeds | oblong, 1.4–1.8 × 0.8–1 mm. |
ovoid, 1.4–1.9 × 1–1.2 mm. |
2n | = 54. |
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Draba hitchcockii |
Draba cyclomorpha |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Limestone outcrops and gravelly soil | Basaltic talus, stony ridges |
Elevation | 1800-2200 m (5900-7200 ft) | 2500-3100 m (8200-10200 ft) |
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Discussion | Draba hitchcockii is known from the Lost River Range in Butte and Custer counties. Based on morphological and chromosomal evidence, M. D. Windham (2004) suggested that it may be an allopolyploid resulting from hybridization between D. oreibata and D. paysonii. Draba hitchcockii is superficially similar to D. jaegeri, a taxon known from the Charleston Mountains of Clark County, Nevada. Both are cespitose perennials with relatively large, white flowers and a chromosome number (2n = 54) otherwise unknown in Draba (Windham). Features distinguishing these two taxa are provided in the discussion of 51. D. jaegeri. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Draba cyclomorpha was treated by Schulz, C. L. Hitchcock (1941), and R. C. Rollins (1993) as a variety of D. lemmonii. The two taxa are quite distinct morphologically and separated by nearly 1600 kilometers, justifying their treatment as distinct species (I. A. Al-Shehbaz and M. D. Windham 2007). Draba cyclomorpha is known to us only from the Wallowa Mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 311. | FNA vol. 7, p. 305. |
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Synonyms | D. lemmonii var. cyclomorpha | |
Name authority | Rollins: J. Arnold Arbor. 64: 500. (1983) | Payson: Amer. J. Bot. 4: 263. (1917) |
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