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sessile-leaf warea, sessileleaf pinelandcress

Stems

(sometimes stout), (1.5–)2.5–6.5(–8) dm.

Cauline leaves

sessile;

blade ovate to lanceolate, (0.8–)1–2.5(–4) cm × 3–15(–30) mm, base not clasping stem, obtuse or, rarely, minutely auriculate (auricles to 2 × 2 mm, those proximally on robust plants rarely larger), apex acute to obtuse.

Racemes

1–3 cm in fruit.

Flowers

sepals white or purplish, strongly reflexed, 6–7 × 0.4–0.7 mm;

petals purple or pink, broadly obovate to suborbicular, 7–11 mm, blade 2–5 × 2–5 mm, claw 4–6 mm, minutely papillate, margins entire;

filaments 9–15 mm;

anthers 1–1.5 mm;

gynophore slender, 10–16 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

9–12 mm.

Fruits

2.5–4.5 cm × 1–1.5 mm;

ovules 22–40 per ovary;

style rarely to 0.5 mm.

Seeds

1.2–1.5 × 0.9–1 mm.

Warea sessilifolia

Phenology Flowering Aug–Sep.
Habitat Sand hills, pine barrens, sandy pinewoods, scrub oak and pine, turkey oak hills
Elevation 0-50 m (0-200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Warea sessilifolia is widespread in the Florida panhandle; in Alabama it is known only from Pike County.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 743.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Warea
Sibling taxa
W. amplexifolia, W. carteri, W. cuneifolia
Name authority Nash: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 101. (1896)
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