Draba scotteri |
Draba lemmonii |
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scotter's whitlowgrass |
granite Draba, Lemmon's Draba |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); caudex simple or branched (covered with persistent leaves); scapose. | Perennials; (cespitose, not pulvinate); caudex branched (covered with persistent petiole remains, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); scapose. |
Stems | unbranched, 0.2–1.4 dm, pubescent throughout, trichomes 2–8-rayed, 0.07–0.4 mm, and, sometimes, simple ones, 0.2–0.8 mm. |
unbranched, 0.3–1(–1.5) dm, hirsute throughout, trichomes simple, 0.2–0.7 mm, with short-stalked, 2-rayed ones, (smaller). |
Basal leaves | rosulate; petiolate; petiole base ciliate, (trichomes simple, 0.2–1 mm); blade oblanceolate, 0.4–1.5 cm × 1–3 mm, margins entire, (ciliate as petiole base), surfaces pubescent with short-stalked, stellate, 8–12-rayed trichomes, 0.1–0.4 mm. |
rosulate; shortly petiolate; petiole base and margin ciliate, (trichomes simple, 0.5–1 mm, midvein obscure); blade (somewhat fleshy), oblanceolate to obovate, 0.4–1(–1.8) cm × 1.5–4(–6) mm, margins entire, surfaces hirsute, abaxially mostly with stalked, 2-rayed trichomes, 0.1–0.8 mm, rarely with fewer, simple ones, adaxially with mostly simple ones, 0.5–1 mm. |
Cauline leaves | 0. |
0. |
Racemes | 1–9-flowered, usually ebracteate, rarely proximalmost flower subtended by a tiny bract, usually considerably elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, pubescent as stem. |
4–15(–21)-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, hirsute as stem. |
Flowers | sepals oblong, 2–3 mm, subapically pubescent, (trichomes simple); petals yellow, obovate to spatulate, 3.5–5.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm; anthers ovate, 0.4–0.5 mm. |
sepals ovate, 2–2.7 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple, short-stalked, 2-rayed); petals yellow, spatulate, 4–6 × 1.5–2.5 mm; anthers oblong, 0.4–0.6 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, straight, 3–8(–12) mm, pubescent as stem. |
horizontal to divaricate-ascending (often somewhat decurrent basally), straight or curved upward, 4–10(–14) mm, hirsute as stem. |
Fruits | lanceolate to narrowly so, plane, flattened, 5–11 × 1.5–2.5 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes simple, 0.1–0.4 mm, occasionally with some 2-rayed ones; ovules 12–18 per ovary; style 0.3–1 mm. |
ovate to ovate-lanceolate, slightly twisted, flattened, 4–9 × 3.5–5 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes usually simple, 0.1–0.45 mm, rarely with fewer, short-stalked, 2-rayed ones; ovules 10–14(–16) per ovary; style 0.1–0.6(–0.8) mm. |
Seeds | ovoid, 0.8–1.2 × 0.6–0.7 mm. |
ovoid, 1–1.4 × 0.6–1 mm. |
2n | = 96. |
= 50. |
Draba scotteri |
Draba lemmonii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Talus and gravelly summits in alpine communities | Granitic rock outcrops, boulder slopes, alpine fellfields |
Elevation | 1200-2000 m (3900-6600 ft) | 3000-4000 m (9800-13100 ft) |
Distribution |
YT |
CA
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. The description of Draba scotteri is based on collections from Kluane National Park, southwestern Yukon Territory. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Draba lemmonii was so broadly circumscribed by C. L. Hitchcock (1941) and R. C. Rollins (1993) that it included plants here assigned to three different species. For a list of features distinguishing D. lemmonii from the recently-segregated D. longisquamosa and D. cyclomorpha, see I. A. Al-Shehbaz and M. D. Windham (2007). Draba lemmonii is apparently restricted to alpine areas of the Sierra Nevada in Fresno, Inyo, Madera, Mono, and Tuolumne counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 335. | FNA vol. 7, p. 316. |
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Name authority | G. A. Mulligan: Canad. J. Bot. 57: 1874. (1979) | S. Watson: in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. California 2: 430. (1880) |
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