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Habit Plants forming tufts; caudex not elongated, not elastic.
Basal leaves

petiole differentiated from blade (sometimes weakly);

blade oblanceolate to obovate.

Fruits

2.6–3.8 mm wide.

Anthers

1.4–1.8(–2) mm.

Physaria hitchcockii subsp. hitchcockii

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Gravelly or rocky limestone at or above timberline
Elevation 2300-3500 m (7500-11500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NV; UT
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Discussion

It is possible that populations of subsp. hitchcockii on the Table Cliff Plateau, Utah, are consubspecific with the nearby subsp. rubicundula. The leaf blades are indistinguishable from the material from Nevada and the plants do not form elongated, elastic caudices.

Subspecies hitchcockii is found in the Sheep Range and Spring Mountains (Charleston Mountain), Nevada, and on the Table Cliff Plateau, Utah, where it is limited to the white member of the limestone Wasatch (Claron) Formation.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 643.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria hitchcockii
Sibling taxa
P. hitchcockii subsp. confluens, P. hitchcockii subsp. rubicundula
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