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Lepidium huberi
S.L. Welsh & Goodrich
Family:
Brassicaceae
Huber's Pepperwort
FNA
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz, John F. Gaskin in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials or subshrubs;
(caudex to 2 cm diam., woody base aboveground); puberulent.
Stems
several from base, erect to ascending, branched distally, (1.8-)3-6(-7) dm.
Basal leaves
not rosulate; petiole 1-3 cm; blade ovate to lanceolate, pinnatifid, 1-4.5 cm × 8-25 mm, margins (of lobes) entire.
Cauline leaves
shortly petiolate or sessile; blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, 1.8-3.5 cm × 3-10 mm (smaller distally), base cuneate, not auriculate, margins entire or coarsely serrate.
Racemes
(subcorymbose panicles), individual racemes slightly elongated; rachis puberulent, trichomes straight.
Fruiting pedicels
divaricate to horizontal, straight or slightly curved, (not winged), 4-7 × 0.2 mm, puberulent throughout.
Flowers:
sepals suborbicular to broadly ovate, 1.2-2 × 1.2-1.5 mm; petals white, suborbicular to obovate, 2-3.2 × 1.5-2 mm, claw 0.5-1 mm; stamens 6; filaments 1.4-1.7 mm, (glabrous); anthers 0.4-0.5 mm.
Fruits
often broadly obovate, 2-3.3 × 1.8-2.5 mm, apically winged, apical notch 0.1-0.2 mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined, glabrous; style 0.2-0.8 mm, exserted beyond apical notch.
Seeds
ovate, 1.4-1.6 × 0.8-1 mm.
Flowering Jul-Aug. Pine and sagebrush communities; of conservation concern; 1500-3000 m; Colo., Utah.
Lepidium huberi
is known in Colorado from Rio Blanco County and in Utah from Uintah County.
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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