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comb-leaf |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); not scapose; pubescent at least basally, trichomes dendritic, mixed with fewer, 2-rayed and larger, simple ones. |
Stems | erect to ascending, branched distally. |
Leaves | cauline; petiolate or subsessile; blade (base not auriculate), not rosulate; margins pinnatifid. |
Racemes | (corymbose, several-flowered), congested or considerably elongated in fruit. |
Flowers | sepals (erect or slightly ascending), oblong-ovate; petals white or purplish, obovate to oblanceolate, (longer than sepals, claw undifferentiated from blade, apex obtuse); stamens slightly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers ovate, (apex obtuse); nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, slender. |
Fruits | (siliques or silicles), sessile, usually linear to oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, not torulose, slightly to strongly angustiseptate; valves each not veined, glabrous or, rarely, sparsely puberulent; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 30–46 per ovary; stigma capitate, entire. |
Seeds | uniseriate, plump, not winged, oblong; seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent. |
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Distribution |
nw United States |
Discussion | Species 1. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 415. |
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Name authority | Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 219. (1912) |
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