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Boechera lyallii

(Wats.) Dorn

GNRUnranked Found in 10 roadless areas NatureServe Explorer →

GNRUnrankedGlobal Rank

Identity

Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1231080

Element CodePDBRA40370

Record TypeSPECIES

ClassificationSpecies

Classification StatusStandard

Name CategoryVascular Plant

Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations

KingdomPlantae

PhylumAnthophyta

ClassDicotyledoneae

OrderCapparales

FamilyBrassicaceae

GenusBoechera

Concept Reference

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.

Taxonomic Comments

Boechera lyallii as treated by FNA (2010, vol. 7), following Windham and Al-Shehbaz (2006), includes what has been treated as a distinct species (described by Mulligan 1995, accepted in Kartesz (1999)), Arabis murrayi, and excludes B. paupercula (formerly treated as A. lyallii var. nubigena by Rollins (1993) and Kartesz (1999)) as a distinct species.

Ecology & Habitat

Other Nations (2)

United StatesNNR

Province	Rank	Native
Utah	SNR	Yes
Washington	SNR	Yes
Montana	S4	Yes
Oregon	SNR	Yes
Idaho	SNR	Yes
Nevada	SNR	Yes
California	SNR	Yes

CanadaN5

Province	Rank	Native
Alberta	S3	Yes
Yukon Territory	SH	Yes
British Columbia	S5	Yes

Plant Characteristics

Economic Value (Genus)No

Roadless Areas (10)

Montana (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Line Creek Plateau	Custer National Forest	24,825

Washington (7)

Area	Forest	Acres
Blue Slide	Wenatchee National Forest	17,505
Chelan	Wenatchee National Forest	74,650
Goat Rocks Adj	Wenatchee National Forest	6,108
Liberty Bell	Okanogan National Forest	108,495
Long Swamp	Okanogan National Forest	66,344
Mt. Baker Noisy - Diobsud	Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	56,039
Mt. Baker West	Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	25,390

Wyoming (2)

Area	Forest	Acres
Beartooth Proposed Wilderness	Shoshone National Forest	16,837
South Beartooth Highway	Shoshone National Forest	105,570

References (5)

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.
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.
Mulligan, G. A. 1995. Synopsis of the genus <i>Arabis </i>(Brassicaceae) in Canada, Alaska, and Greenland. Rhodora 97: 109-163.
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.
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.