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golden gladecress

Stems

(when present) 1–3 dm.

Basal leaves

petiole 1.8–3.9 cm;

blade 3.5–6.5(–8) cm, lobes 1–3 on each side, margins shallowly dentate, terminal lobe suborbicular, 6–12 × 5–11 mm (equal to or slightly longer than wide), considerably larger than lateral lobes, margins usually shallowly dentate, sometimes slightly lobed.

Flowers

sepals widely spreading, oblong-linear, 2.9–4.6 × 1–1.9 mm;

petals spreading, pale yellow, obcordate to broadly obovate, (5–)6–9 × 1.5–4.5 mm, claw bright yellow, 1.6–2.8 mm, apex shallowly emarginate, apical notch 0.1–0.4(–0.6) mm deep;

filaments: median 3–4.5 mm, lateral 1.3–2.4 mm;

anthers 0.6–1.1 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

solitary flowers 30–90 mm;

racemes 30–60 mm.

Fruits

oblong, 2–3.1 cm × 3–5 mm, smooth, latiseptate, (margined);

valves thin;

ovules 6–14 per ovary;

style (1.5–)2–3 mm.

Seeds

2–4.2 mm diam.;

wing 0.2–0.3 mm wide;

embryo straight.

2n

= 48.

Leavenworthia aurea

Phenology Flowering Mar–Apr.
Habitat Pastures, roadsides, shallow limestone soils, seeps, creek margins
Elevation 100-200 m (300-700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
OK
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Leavenworthia aurea is known only from Choctaw and McCurtain counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 488.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Cardamineae > Leavenworthia
Sibling taxa
L. alabamica, L. crassa, L. exigua, L. stylosa, L. texana, L. torulosa, L. uniflora
Name authority Torrey: Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 4: 88, plate 5. (1837)
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