Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky MountainsBrown, Stewardson
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Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Brown, Stewardson
Mountain plants -- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)
In wet shaded places, sparingly throughout the region; flowering during
June and July.
[Sidenote: =Arabis hirsuta= (L.) Scop. _Hairy Rock-cress._]
Stem erect, nearly simple, 1—2 feet high, roughly hairy or nearly
smooth. Basal leaves on margined petioles forming a rosette, obovate or
spatulate, obtuse, denticulate, 1—2 inches long; stem leaves sessile,
clasping by an auriculate base, lanceolate or oblong. Flowers ¼ of an
inch or less long, white, in a strict, elongated raceme; pods narrowly
linear, erect or appressed, 1—2 inches long.
In open grounds throughout the Rockies at the lower altitudes;
flowering in June.
[Sidenote: =Arabis Holboldii= Hornem. _Stony Rock-cress._]
Finely stellately pubescent throughout; stems frequently
several, simple or branched, erect ½—2½ feet high. Root leaves
narrowly oblanceolate, entire, an inch or less long; stem leaves
linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, acute, sagittate. Flowers rosy
pink or rarely white, becoming more or less reflexed, ¼ of an inch
long; pods more or less abruptly reflexed, straight or somewhat curved
1½—2½ inches long, very narrowly linear.
On banks and stony slopes throughout the Rockies; flowering in June.
[Sidenote: =Arabis Drummondii= A. Gray. _Drummond’s Rock-cress._]
Slightly glaucous, stems erect; 1—2 feet high. Root leaves narrowly
oblanceolate more or less hairy; the stem leaves oblong or
linear-lanceolate, 1—2 inches long. Flowers white or pinkish, ¼ of
an inch long in a close panicle, elongated in fruit; pods erect when
mature, slender, 1½—3 inches long, obtuse.
In open ground and on slopes throughout the Rockies, flowering in June.
[Sidenote: =Arabis Lyallii= S. Wats. _Lyall’s Rock-cress._]
Low, smooth, throughout, or sometimes more or less stellate-pubescent
below; stem simple, several, or many from the same root. Lower leaves
spatulate or linear-oblanceolate, usually ½—1 inch long, sometimes
longer; stem leaves narrowly lanceolate or oblong, sometimes scarcely
auricled. Flowers rose-colour, ¼ of an inch long; pods erect or
ascending, very slender, straight or nearly so, 1—2 inches long.
Alpine meadows and slopes at the higher elevations throughout the
Rockies, flowering in June and July.
[Sidenote: =Erysimum inconspicuum= (S. Wats.) MacM. _Treacle Mustard._]
Erect, 10—18 inches high, cinereous and rough with 2-parted hairs.
Leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate or oblong-linear, mostly entire,
the root leaves crowded and sometimes repand dentate. Flowers sulphur
yellow in a compact head, elongated in fruit, calyx campanulate, ¼ inch
high, petals ⅓ longer, the blades spreading; pods slender, erect or
nearly so at maturity, 1—2 inches long.
In gravelly places, common on the eastern slopes of the Rockies at the
lower elevations, flowering in June.
[Sidenote: =Smelowskia calycina= (Desv.) C. A. Meyer. _Smelowskia._]
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