Lesquerella shearis Rydb.

  • Authority

    New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Brassicaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lesquerella shearis Rydb.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Perennial with a large rosette of basal leaves; stems several, ascending, 1-2 dm. high, densely stellate: basal leaves 3-4 cm. long; blades broadly oval or ovate, entire or slightly angular denticulate; stem leaves oblanceolate, about 2 cm. long, subsessile: raceme many-flowered; pedicels in fruit bent S-shaped: pods erect, densely stellate, 7-8 mm. long, acute, compressed above; septum elliptic in outline: style about as long as the pod.

  • Discussion

    This species differs from L. curvipes A. Nelson in the broad basal leaves, the elliptic instead of ovate outline of the septum and the longer style. It grows along creek banks at an altitude of about 2000 m.

    Colorado: Idaho Springs, 1895, C. L. Shear, 3269 (type in herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); also at the same locality, P. A. Rydberg.

  • Distribution

    Colorado: Idaho Springs.

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