Braya purpurascens (R. Br.) Bunge
 
FamilyCruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae
SynonymsPlatypetalum purpurascens R. Br.
DescriptionBasal leaves fleshy, often purplish, oblong to linear, somewhat pubescent with simple and branched hairs, or nearly glabrous; stem coarse, mostly leafless, slightly pubescent; petals slightly emarginate, white to reddish; siliques elliptic-oblong, glabrous or nearly so, often purplish.
EcologySolifluction soil.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.