Draba murrayi |
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kathul mountain Draba |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); caudex often branched (covered with persistent leaves or leaf remains, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); not scapose. |
Stems | unbranched, (0.4–)0.9–2.7(–3.5) dm, pubescent proximally, glabrous distally, trichomes simple, 0.2–1 mm, and often smaller, fewer short-stalked, 2–4-rayed ones. |
Basal leaves | rosulate; petiolate; petiole (0–0.7 cm), margin ciliate; blade oblanceolate to obovate, (0.3–)0.6–2.1(–2.8) cm × (1.5–)2.5–5(–9) mm, margins entire or sparsely denticulate, (ciliate, trichomes simple, 0.2–1.1 mm), surfaces pubescent with stalked, cruciform, and 2- or 3-rayed trichomes, (rays sometimes spurred), 0.1–0.6 mm, sometimes mostly simple trichomes adaxially. |
Cauline leaves | 1–6; sessile; blade ovate or oblong to lanceolate, margins usually entire, rarely sparsely denticulate, surfaces pubescent as basal. |
Racemes | 7–25-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, glabrous. |
Flowers | sepals ovate, 1.5–2.2 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2-rayed); petals white, obovate, 4–6 × 1.5–2.5 mm; anthers ovate, 0.4–0.5 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, usually straight, rarely curved, (4–)7–18 mm, glabrous. |
Fruits | linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, plane, flattened, 5–13 × 1.5–2 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 20–30 per ovary; style 0.6–1.5 mm. |
Seeds | oblong, 0.9–1.2 × ca. 0.5 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
Draba murrayi |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Rock outcrops and talus, open forests, dry slopes, alluvial gravels |
Elevation | 150-900 m (500-3000 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; YT |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 321. |
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Name authority | G. A. Mulligan: Canad. J. Bot. 57: 1874. (1979) |
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