Draba paucifructa |
Draba platycarpa |
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Charleston Mountain Draba |
broad-pod whitlow-grass, broadpod Draba |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple or branched (not fleshy, usually with some persistent leaf remains); sometimes scapose. | Annuals; scapose or subscapose. |
Stems | unbranched, (0.1–)0.3–0.9 dm, glabrous throughout or sparsely pubescent proximally, trichomes simple and 2–6-rayed, 0.1–0.5 mm. |
often unbranched, sometimes branched proximally, (0.3–)0.5–3.2(–4) dm, densely hirsute proximally, trichomes simple, 0.9–1.5 mm, and stalked, 2–4-rayed, 0.1–0.6 mm, pubescent distally, trichomes usually branched, rarely simple ones present. |
Basal leaves | rosulate; petiolate; petiole (0–0.5 cm), ciliate throughout; blade oblanceolate to obovate, 0.4–1.7(–2.3) cm × 1.6–4(–6) mm, margins usually entire, rarely denticulate, (sparsely ciliate, trichomes simple, 0.3–0.8 mm), surfaces pubescent, abaxially with stalked, (2–)4(–6)-rayed trichomes, (0.05–)0.1–0.6 mm, adaxially with simple and fewer, stalked, 2–4-rayed ones. |
rosulate; petiole obscure; blade obovate to spatulate or oblanceolate, 1–4.5 cm × 5–25(–30) mm, margins dentate, surfaces pubescent, abaxially with stalked, (2 or) 3 or 4-rayed trichomes, 0.1–0.6 mm, adaxially with simple, 0.7–1.3 mm, and stalked, 2–4-rayed ones, 0.1–0.5 mm. |
Cauline leaves | 0 or 1; sessile; blade ovate to lanceolate, margins entire, surfaces pubescent as basal. |
(3 or) 4–8(–14); sessile; blade similar to basal. |
Racemes | (2–)4–9(–12)-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis slightly flexuous, glabrous. |
12–45(–60)-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, pubescent, trichomes 2–4-rayed. |
Flowers | sepals ovate, 1.2–1.7 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2- or 3-rayed); petals yellowish (quickly fading white), spatulate, 1.8–2.2 × 0.6–1 mm; anthers ovate, 0.25–0.3 mm. |
(mid- and late-season ones cleistogamous, apetalous); sepals oblong, 1.4–2.2 mm, pubescent; petals white, oblanceolate, (1.7–)2.5–3.5(–4) × 1–2 mm; anthers ovate, 0.2–0.35 mm (shorter in cleistogamous flowers). |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, straight, 2–5(–8) mm, glabrous. |
horizontal to divaricate, straight, 4–9(–11) mm, pubescent as stem. |
Fruits | elliptic to linear lanceolate, plane, flattened, 5–10(–12) × 1.7–2(–2.5) mm; valves glabrous; ovules 20–30 per ovary; style 0.08–0.2 mm. |
obovate-oblong to obovate, plane, flattened, 5–8.2(–9.5) × (2.4–)2.8–3.7(–4) mm; valves pubescent, trichomes simple, antrorse, 0.2–0.5 mm; ovules (28–)40–70(–82) per ovary; style 0.01–0.2 mm. |
Seeds | oblong, 0.9–1.2 × 0.5–0.8 mm. |
ovoid, 0.5–0.7 × 0.3–0.5 mm. |
2n | = 40. |
= 16, 32. |
Draba paucifructa |
Draba platycarpa |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering Feb–Mar. |
Habitat | Moist, shaded slopes among limestone and dolomite rocks | Rocky hillsides, gravelly and sandy areas, dry plains, roadsides |
Elevation | 2600-3500 m (8500-11500 ft) | 0-500 m (0-1600 ft) |
Distribution |
NV |
AR; AZ; ID; LA; OK; OR; TX; WA
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Draba paucifructa is known from the Charleston Mountains in Clark County. M. D. Windham (2004) suggested that it is an allopolyploid resulting from hybridization between D. albertina and D. lonchocarpa, and he discussed the morphological features that distinguish this species from its putative parents. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Draba platycarpa is occasionally treated as a variety of D. cuneifolia, but is amply distinct from that species (R. L. Hartman et al. 1975). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 327. | FNA vol. 7, p. 330. |
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Synonyms | D. cuneifolia var. platycarpa, D. viperensis | |
Name authority | Clokey & C. L. Hitchcock: Madroño 5: 127. (1939) | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 108. (1838) |
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