Braya glabella Richardson

Smooth northern-rockcress (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Brassicaceae > Braya

Characteristics

Plants scapose; sparsely to densely pubescent, trichomes simple, 2-or 3-forked. Stems simple or few to several from base, ascending or erect, rarely decumbent to prostrate, (0.1-)0.3-1.7(-2.3) dm. Basal leaves: blade (often somewhat fleshy), linear-oblanceolate to broadly spatulate, (0.4-)0.8-6(-7.9) cm × (0.3-)0.6-4(-6) mm, base (membranous), broadly expanded near point of attachment, margins usually entire, sometimes weakly dentate with 1 or 2 teeth per side, apex obtuse, (often with a tuft of long, simple hairs, surfaces sparsely to moderately pubescent). Cauline leaves 0 or 1 (or a leaflike bract subtending proximalmost pedicel). ( Racemes elongated or not in fruit.) Fruiting pedicels ascending-erect to divaricate, (0.9-)1.9-7.5(-8.6) mm. Flowers: sepals (1.6-)1.9-3.7 × (0.7-)1-2 mm; petals white or purplish (broadly obovate or spatulate), (2.1-) 2.4-4.5(-4.7) × (0.7-)1-3(-3.2) mm, (apex rounded); filaments 1.7-2.2 mm; anthers oblong, 0.3-0.5 mm. Fruits oval-elliptic, oblong-elliptic, oblong, or oblong-lanceoloid, sometimes slightly torulose, (straight or somewhat curved), (0.3-)0.5-1.2(-1.5) cm × (0.8-)1.1-3 (-3.6) mm; valves sparsely to densely pubescent or glabrous, trichomes simple or 2 (or 3)-forked; septum margin not expanded or not basally; ovules (5-)16-20 per ovary; style (0.3-)0.5-1.8(-2) mm; stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed, (narrow or broad). Seeds biseriate, oblong, (0.7-)0.9-1.6 × 0.4-0.8(-0.9) mm.
Life form perennial
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Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.7
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Images

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Distribution

Braya glabella world distribution map, present in Canada and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:307465-2
WFO ID wfo-0000571933
COL ID N8K4
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Synonyms

Braya americana Braya glabella Braya platypetala Platypetalum nanum Braya nana Braya purpurascens f. leiocarpa Braya bartlettiana Braya aenea subsp. pseudoaenea Braya alpina var. americana Braya alpina subsp. americana Braya alpina var. glabella Braya bartlettiana var. vestita Braya humilis var. americana Braya humilis var. glabella Braya siliquosa var. tilingii Braya alpina f. glabella Braya glabella var. glabella Braya alpina var. americana Braya glabella subsp. glabella