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Boechera formosa

(Greene) Windham & Al-Shehbaz

Beautiful Rockcress

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Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.161585
Element CodePDBRA061M4
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVascular Plant
Endemicendemic to a single nation
KingdomPlantae
PhylumAnthophyta
ClassDicotyledoneae
OrderCapparales
FamilyBrassicaceae
GenusBoechera
Synonyms
Arabis pulchra var. pallensM.E. JonesBoechera pulchra var. pallens(Jones) Dorn
Other Common Names
beautiful rockcress (EN)
Concept Reference
Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Taxonomic Comments
Windham and Al-Shehbaz (2006) find through analysis of phylogenetics, morphology, and geography that the three sexual diploid entities previously recognized as varieties of Arabis pulchra (e.g., by Rollins (1993), Kartesz (1994 and 1999)) deserve recognition as distinct species: Arabis pulchra var. pallens is treated as Boechera formosa (Greene) Windham & Al-Shehbaz; A. pulchra var. munciensis is treated as Boechera lincolnensis Windham & Al-Shehbaz; A. pulchra var. pulchra is treated as Boechera pulchra s. str. This is the treatment followed in FNA (2010, vol. 7).
Conservation Status
Review Date1988-02-25
Change Date1988-02-25
Ecology & Habitat
Other Nations (1)
United StatesNNR
ProvinceRankNative
UtahSNRYes
WyomingS2Yes
ColoradoS3Yes
ArizonaSNRYes
New MexicoSNRYes
Plant Characteristics
Economic Value (Genus)No
Roadless Areas (1)
Utah (1)
AreaForestAcres
0419020Ashley National Forest355,684
References (5)
  1. Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 7. Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxii + 797 pp.
  2. Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
  3. Kartesz, J.T. 1999. A synonymized checklist and atlas with biological attributes for the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. First edition. In: Kartesz, J.T., and C.A. Meacham. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, N.C.
  4. Rollins, R.C. 1993a. The Cruciferae of continental North America: Systematics of the mustard family from the Arctic to Panama. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, California. 976 pp.
  5. Windham, M. D. and I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2006. New and noteworthy species of <i>Boechera</i> (Brassicaceae) I: Sexual diploids. Harvard Papers in Botany 11: 61-88.