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Descurainia californica
(A. Gray) O.E. Schulz
Family:
Brassicaceae
Sierra tansymustard,
more...
Sierran Tansy-Mustard, Sierran tansy mustard, Sierran tansymustard
[
Sisymbrium californicum
,
more
Smelowskia californica
A. Gray,
Sophia leptostylis
Rydb.
]
Max Licher
FNA
Resources
Cruciferae Jussieu, Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Annuals or biennials;
eglan-dular; usually pubescent, trichomes dendritic, sometimes glabrous distally.
Stems
erect, unbranched basally, branched distally, (1.3-)2-10.5 (-13.5) dm.
Basal leaves:
petiole 0.4-4.2 cm; blade pinnate, oblanceolate to obovate in outline, 1.5-6 cm, lateral lobes [2-4 (or 5) pairs], lanceolate, (5-22 × 1-5 mm), margins usually entire or crenate to incised, rarely lobed.
Cauline leaves
sessile or shortly petiolate; blade smaller distally, distal lobes often narrower, surfaces sparsely pubescent.
Racemes
considerably elongated in fruit.
Fruiting pedicels
divaricate to ascending or suberect, often straight, 3-9(-11) mm.
Flowers:
sepals spreading, yellowish, oblong, 0.9-1.5 mm, glabrous; petals oblanceolate, 1.1-1.8 × 0.4-0.6 mm; median filaments 0.8-1.4 mm; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm.
Fruits
divaricate to erect, fusiform, not torulose, (2-) 3-5(-6) × (0.8-)1-1.3 mm, (long-acute at both ends); valves each with obscure midvein; septum not veined; ovules 4-12 per ovary; style (0.2-)0.3-0.6(-0.8) mm, glabrous.
Seeds
uniseriate, light brown, ellipsoid, 1-1.4 × 0.6-0.8 mm.
2
n
= 14.
Flowering Jun-Aug. Disturbed areas in pinyon-juniper, dry hillsides, decomposed granite slopes, sagebrush, moist roadsides, open woods, fir-spruce or aspen communities, gravel and talus slopes; 1700-3400 m; Ariz., Calif., Colo., Nev., N.Mex., Oreg., Utah, Wyo.
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