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woolly princesplume

Habit Perennials; (caudex simple, covered with persistent petiolar remains); pubescent or glabrous.
Stems

erect, unbranched or branched distally, 5–15 dm, (tomentose throughout or glabrate distally).

Basal leaves

petiole 0.3–1.2 cm;

blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, 6.7–19(–23) cm × 20–50(–60) mm, margins runcinate, (surfaces densely tomentose).

Cauline leaves

petiolate; (proximalmost similar to basal), blade lanceolate, 2–4 cm × 5–10 mm (smaller distally), margins entire to hastate.

Racemes

dense, (considerably elongated in fruit).

Flowers

sepals linear, 10–16 mm, pubescent;

petals pale lemon yellow, linear, 12–21 × 1–1.8 mm, claw 8–15 mm, (nearly linear), slightly wider at base, glabrous;

filaments 12–22 mm, glabrous;

anthers 4–5.5 mm;

gynophore 10–20 mm, glabrous.

Fruiting pedicels

horizontal to divaricate-ascending, 11–22 mm, (pilose or glabrous).

Fruits

suberect to ascending, straight, flattened, 4–7 cm × 1.2–2.2 mm;

ovules 30–46 per ovary;

style 0.02–0.3 mm.

Seeds

oblong, 1.8–2.6 × 1–1.5 mm.

Stanleya tomentosa

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Rocky limestone hillsides, knolls, steep grassy banks, sagebrush communities, stony clay slopes
Elevation 1300-2300 m (4300-7500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; WY
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Discussion

Stanleya tomentosa is known in Wyoming from Big Horn, Hot Springs, and Park counties. R. C. Rollins (1993) recognized two varieties and distinguished them primarily on the basis of having sparsely pilose (var. tomentosa) versus glabrous (var. runcinata) distalmost stems. The distinction is artificial and unwarranted.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 698.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Stanleya
Sibling taxa
S. albescens, S. bipinnata, S. confertiflora, S. elata, S. pinnata, S. viridiflora
Synonyms S. runcinata, S. tomentosa var. runcinata
Name authority Parry: Amer. Naturalist 8: 212. (1874)
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