Family | BRASSICACEAE |
Genus species | Physaria parvula (Greene) O´Kane & Al-Shehbaz |
Bibliography | Novon 12: 326 (2002) |
Native Range | Colorado to Wyoming and Utah |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1800-2800m |
Description | densely appressed pubescent, leaves in rosette, crowded at base, linear, petiole and blade undistinct, flowers in narrow raceme, 5-15, silicles cylindrical |
Size | 3-15cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings of rosettes in late summer |
Synonyms | Lesquerella alpina ssp. parvula (Greene) Rollins & E.A.Shaw Lesquerella alpina var. parvula (Greene) S.L.Welsh & Reveal Lesquerella parvula Greene |
Territory | 7 Northern America 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, WYO Wyoming) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (UTA Utah) |