Great Basin Naturalist
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Abstract
The mustard family, Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) is revised for the state of Utah. Treated are 155 species and 44 varieties, including 37 species of introduced weeds or escaped cultivated plants. A key to the genera and species is included, along with detailed descriptions, distribution data, and pertinent comments for many of the taxa. Proposed new varieties are: Lepidium montanum Nutt. var. stellae Welsh & Reveal; L. montanum var. neeseae Welsh & Reveal; Lesquerella hemiphysaria Maguire var. lucens Welsh & Reveal; Physaria acutifolia Rydb. var. purpurea Welsh & Reveal; and, Thelypodium sagittatum (Nutt.) Endl. in Walp. var. vermicularis Welsh & Reveal. The following new combinations are made: Arabis confinis S. Wats. var. interposita (Greene) Welsh & Reveal; Descurainia pinnata (Walt.) Britt. var. paysonii (Detl.) Welsh & Reveal; D. richardsonii (Sweet) O. E. Schulz var. brevipes (Nutt.) Welsh & Reveal; Draba asprella Greene var. zionensis (C. L. Hitchc.) Welsh & Reveal; Draba densifolia Nutt. ex Torr. & Gray var. daviesiae (C. L. Hitchc.) Welsh & Reveal; Lesquerella alpina (Nutt.) S. Wats. var. parvula (Greene) Welsh & Reveal; Lesquerella kingii S. Wats. var. parvifolia (Maguire & Holmgren) Welsh & Reveal; Rorippa islandica (Oed.) Borbas var. glabra (O. E. Schulz) Welsh & Reveal; Thelypodiopsis divaricata (Rollins) Welsh & Reveal; Thelypodium integrifolium (Nutt.) Endl. var. affine (Greene) Welsh & Reveal.
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Welsh, Stanley L. and Reveal, James L.
(1977)
"Utah flora: Brassicaceae (Cruciferae),"
Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 37:
No.
3, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol37/iss3/1