Eutrema salsugineum

(Pallas) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick

Harvard Pap. Bot. 10: 134. 2005.

Basionym: Sisymbrium salsugineum Pallas Reise Russ. Reich. 2: 466. 1773
Synonyms: Arabidopsis salsuginea (Pallas) N. Busch Hesperis salsuginea (Pallas) Kuntze Pilosella glauca (Nuttall) Rydberg Sisymbrium glaucum Nuttall Stenophragma salsugineum (Pallas) Prantl Thellungiella salsuginea (Pallas) O. E. Schulz Thelypodium salsugineum (Pallas) B. L. Robinson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 556. Mentioned on page 555.

Annuals; (often glaucous). Stems simple or few to several from caudex, erect or ascending, branched basally, (0.6–)1–3(–4) dm. Basal leaves rosulate or not; petiole 0.5–1 cm; blade (not fleshy), obovate, spatulate, or oblong, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) cm × 2–5 mm, margins usually entire, rarely dentate or pinnatifid, apex obtuse. Cauline leaves sessile; blade cordate, ovate, or oblong, 0.4–1.7(–2.5) cm × 1–7(–10) mm, base deeply sagittate-amplexicaul, margins entire or repand, apex acute or obtuse. Racemes elongated in fruit, (rachis straight). Fruiting pedicels divaricate to divaricate-ascending, (slender), 3–10 mm. Flowers: sepals oblong, 1–1.5 × 0.5–0.6 mm; petals obovate, 2–3 × 1–1.7 mm; filaments 1–1.5 mm; anthers oblong, 0.2–0.4 mm, (apiculate). Fruits sessile, linear, distinctly torulose, 0.7–1.6(–2) cm × (0.7–)0.8–1 mm, terete; valves each obscurely veined; septum complete; ovules 55–96 per ovary; style 0.1–0.3 mm. Seeds (biseriate) oblong, 0.4–0.5 × 0.2–0.3 mm. 2n = 14.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Sandy alkaline ground, saline flats and fields, alkaline sloughs, stream banks, salt meadows and plains, steppes
Elevation: 600-2500 m

Distribution

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B.C., N.W.T., Sask., Yukon, Colo., Mont., c, e Asia.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz +
(Pallas) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick +
Sisymbrium salsugineum +
B.C. +, N.W.T. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Colo. +, Mont. +, c +  and e Asia. +
600-2500 m +
Sandy alkaline ground, saline flats and fields, alkaline sloughs, stream banks, salt meadows and plains, steppes +
Flowering May–Jun. +
Harvard Pap. Bot. +
Arabidopsis salsuginea +, Hesperis salsuginea +, Pilosella glauca +, Sisymbrium glaucum +, Stenophragma salsugineum +, Thellungiella salsuginea +  and Thelypodium salsugineum +
Eutrema salsugineum +
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