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Brassicaceae

Brassicaceae
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Anthony Mendoza
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Cruciferae Jussieu, Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Herbs or subshrubs [shrubs or, rarely, lianas or trees], annual, biennial, or perennial; usually terrestrial, rarely submerged aquatics; with pungent watery juice; scapose or not; pubescent or glabrous, usually without papillae or tubercles (multicellular glandular papillae or tubercles present in Bunias, Chorispora, and Parrya); taprooted or rhizomatous (rarely stoloniferous), caudex simple or branched, sometimes woody, rhizomes slender or thick. Trichomes unicellular, simple, stalked, or sessile; forked, stellate, dendritic, malpighiaceous (medifixed, 2-fid, appressed), or peltate and scalelike, eglandular. Stems (absent in Idahoa, sometimes Leavenworthia) usually erect, sometimes ascending, descending, prostrate, decumbent, or procumbent; branched or unbranched. Leaves (sometimes persistent) cauline usually present, basal present or not (sometimes rhizomal present in Cardamine), rosulate or not, usually alternate (sometimes opposite or whorled in Cardamine angustata, C. concatenata, and C. diphylla and in Lunaria annua; sometimes subopposite in C. dissecta and C. maxima and in Draba ogilviensis), usually simple, rarely trifoliolate or pinnately, palmately, or bipinnately compound; stipules absent [with tiny, stipulelike glands at base of petioles and pedicels]; petiolate, sessile, or subsessile (sessile auriculate or not, sometimes amplexicaul); blade margins entire, dentate, crenate, sinuate, repand, or dissected. Inflorescences terminal, usually racemose (racemes often corymbose or paniculate) or flowers solitary on pedicels from axils of rosette leaves; bracts usually absent, sometimes present. Pedicels present (persistent or caducous [rarely geotropic]). Flowers bisexual [unisexual], usually actinomorphic (zygomorphic in Iberis, sometimes in Pennellia, Streptanthus, and Teesdalia); perianth and androecium hypogynous; sepals usually caducous, rarely persistent, 4, in 2 decussate pairs (1 pair lateral, 1 median), distinct [connate], not saccate or lateral (inner) pair (or, rarely, both pairs) saccate, forming tubular, campanulate, or urceolate calyx; petals 4, alternate with sepals, usually cruciform, rarely in abaxial and adaxial pairs, rarely rudimentary or absent, claw differentiated or not from blade, blade sometimes reduced and much smaller than well-developed claw, basally unappendaged, or, rarely, ap
Duration: Biennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Subshrub
Species within checklist: Sedona/Oak Creek Canyon
Alyssum simplex
Media resource of Alyssum simplex
Arabis hirsuta
Media resource of Arabis hirsuta
Athysanus pusillus
Media resource of Athysanus pusillus
Barbarea orthoceras
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Boechera fendleri
Media resource of Boechera fendleri
Boechera gracilipes
Media resource of Boechera gracilipes
Boechera perennans
Media resource of Boechera perennans
Brassica nigra
Media resource of Brassica nigra
Brassica tournefortii
Media resource of Brassica tournefortii
Camelina microcarpa
Media resource of Camelina microcarpa
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Media resource of Capsella bursa-pastoris
Chorispora tenella
Media resource of Chorispora tenella
Descurainia californica
Media resource of Descurainia californica
Descurainia obtusa
Media resource of Descurainia obtusa
Descurainia sophia
Media resource of Descurainia sophia
Dimorphocarpa wislizeni
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Draba asprella
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Draba cuneifolia
Media resource of Draba cuneifolia
Erysimum capitatum
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Erysimum repandum
Media resource of Erysimum repandum
Hesperidanthus linearifolius
Media resource of Hesperidanthus linearifolius
Hesperis matronalis
Media resource of Hesperis matronalis
Lepidium alyssoides
Media resource of Lepidium alyssoides
Lepidium densiflorum
Media resource of Lepidium densiflorum
Lepidium lasiocarpum
Media resource of Lepidium lasiocarpum
Matthiola longipetala
Media resource of Matthiola longipetala
Nasturtium officinale
Media resource of Nasturtium officinale
Noccaea montana
Media resource of Noccaea montana
Pennellia longifolia
Media resource of Pennellia longifolia
Physaria cinerea
Media resource of Physaria cinerea
Physaria gordonii
Media resource of Physaria gordonii
Physaria intermedia
Media resource of Physaria intermedia
Physaria newberryi
Media resource of Physaria newberryi
Physaria pinetorum
Media resource of Physaria pinetorum
Rorippa microtitis
Media resource of Rorippa microtitis
Rorippa palustris
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Rorippa sphaerocarpa
Media resource of Rorippa sphaerocarpa
Sisymbrium altissimum
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Sisymbrium irio
Media resource of Sisymbrium irio
Sisymbrium orientale
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Streptanthus cordatus
Media resource of Streptanthus cordatus
Thelypodium wrightii
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Thysanocarpus curvipes
Media resource of Thysanocarpus curvipes
Turritis glabra
Media resource of Turritis glabra
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