Draba petrophila |
Draba pterosperma |
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Santa Rita Mountain Draba, Santa Rita Mountain whitlowgrass, Santa Rita whitlow grass |
wing-seed Draba, wingedseed Draba |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose, long-lived); caudex simple or branched (covered with persistent petioles), not scapose. | Perennials; (densely cespitose to pulvinate); caudex branched (with persistent leaves, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); scapose. |
Stems | usually unbranched, rarely branched, 0.3–1.9(–2.8) dm, moderately to densely hirsute throughout, trichomes simple, 0.2–1.3 mm, with short-stalked to subsessile, cruciform, 0.02–0.4 mm, and 2-rayed ones, 0.3–0.9 mm. |
unbranched, 0.3–1.1 dm, pubescent throughout, trichomes sub-dendritic, 2–7-rayed, (often crisped), 0.2–0.7 mm. |
Basal leaves | rosulate; petiolate; petiole ciliate, (trichomes simple, 0.4–1.5 mm); blade oblanceolate, 1–5(–6) cm × 2–5(–10) mm, margins usually entire, rarely denticulate, surfaces pubescent, abaxially with stalked, cruciform trichomes, 0.07–0.5 mm, adaxially often similar, sometimes with fewer, simple and 2-rayed trichomes, 0.4–1.3 mm. |
(densely imbricate); rosulate; petiolate; petiole base and margin ciliate, (trichomes simple or branched, often crisped, 0.3–1 mm); blade oblanceolate to obovate or spatulate, 0.2–0.7 cm × 1–2.8 mm, margins entire, surfaces densely pubescent (often grayish) with stellate-dendritic, stalked, 5–12-rayed, (often crisped) trichomes, 0.2–0.6 mm. |
Cauline leaves | 3–10; sessile; blade ovate to lanceolate or oblong, margins entire or denticulate, surfaces pubescent as basal. |
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Racemes | 10–37(–58)-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, pubescent as stem. |
4–12-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, pubescent as stem. |
Flowers | sepals oblong, 2–3.5 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple and 2-rayed); petals yellow, oblanceolate, 3.5–6 × 1.2–1.8 mm; anthers oblong, 0.8–1 mm. |
sepals oblong, 3–4 mm, pubescent, (trichomes stalked, branched, crisped); petals yellow, oblanceolate, 6–7 × 1.5–2.5 mm; anthers oblong, 0.7–0.9 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, straight, 4–10 mm, pubescent throughout, trichomes simple (0.1–0.5 mm) and subsessile, 2–4-rayed, (0.03–0.2 mm). |
erect (and subappressed to rachis) or ascending, straight, (3–)4–9(–12) mm, pubescent as stem. |
Fruits | lanceolate to elliptic, often strongly twisted, flattened, 5–11 × 2–3 mm; valves puberulent at least along margin, trichomes simple, antrorse, 0.03–0.15 mm; ovules 14–24 per ovary; style 0.8–1.8(–2.5) mm. |
broadly ovate to lanceolate or subelliptic, plane, flattened, 5–10(–13) × (2.5–)3.5–5(–6) mm; valves pubescent, trichomes short stalked, 2–7-rayed, (straight or crisped), 0.15–0.6 mm; ovules 8–12 per ovary; style 1.5–3(–3.8) mm. |
Seeds | ovoid, 1–1.4 × 0.6–0.9 mm. |
(winged), ovate, 1.6–3 × 1.3–1.8 mm; (wing 0.3–0.9 mm wide). |
Draba petrophila |
Draba pterosperma |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Crevices, ledges of cliffs | Limestone and marble outcrops, talus, gravel slopes |
Elevation | 1200-2800 m (3900-9200 ft) | 1500-2500 m (4900-8200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ
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CA |
Discussion | Draba petrophila is often broadly circumscribed to include the taxon herein called D. viridis. For a discussion of the differences between these species and the closely related D. helleriana, see I. A. Al-Shehbaz and M. D. Windham (2007). Draba petrophila, in the strict sense, is known only from Cochise, Pima, and Santa Cruz counties in southeastern Arizona. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Draba pterosperma is a distinctive species that is restricted to the Marble Mountains of northern California (Siskiyou County). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 329. | FNA vol. 7, p. 332. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Arabideae > Draba | Brassicaceae > tribe Arabideae > Draba |
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Synonyms | D. helleriana var. blumeri, D. helleriana var. petrophila | |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 4: 17. (1899) | Payson: Amer. J. Bot. 4: 266. (1917) |
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