Anelsonia
Family:
Brassicaceae
FNA
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials;
(cespitose, deep-rooted); scapose; pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, dendritic or irregularly forked, (soft).
Stems
erect, unbranched.
Leaves
(persistent) basal; rosulate; petiolate; blade margins entire.
Racemes
(corymbose, few- to several-flowered), not or slightly elongated in fruit.
Fruiting pedicels
ascending to suberect, slender.
Flowers:
sepals (early caducous, erect), oblong, (pubescent), base of lateral pair not saccate; petals white to purplish, oblanceolate, (slightly longer than sepals); stamens tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers ovate; nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.
Fruits
(erect, siliques or silicles), sessile or short-stipitate, lanceolate, broadly oblong to narrowly ovate, not torulose, latiseptate; valves each with prominent midvein and somewhat anastomosing lateral veins, glabrous; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 10-24 per ovary; stigma capitate.
Seeds
biseriate, somewhat flattened, not winged, oblong to ovoid; seed coat (silvery, papillate), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent.
x
= 7.
Anelsonia
is most closely related to
Boechera
and
Phoenicaulis
, from which it is readily distinguished by its scapose habit and papillate seeds.
Species within inventory project:
Intermountain Regional Herbarium Network
Anelsonia eurycarpa