| Rorippa hispida (Desv.) Britt. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Rorippa islandica var. hispida (Desv.) Butt. & Abbe., Brachilobus hispidus Desv. | ||
| Description | Similar to R. islandica. In its most extreme form, the stem is straight, upright, tall, branched above only, and densely hispid, with whitish hairs; the silicles are nearly spherical, much shorter than the pedicels. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places, roadsides; wet places. Described from Pennsylvania. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Forms hybrid swarms with R. islandica. All transitions between the two taxa occur; those with densely hispid stem are here transferred to R. hispida. |
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.