Leavenworthia

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Brassicaceae

• Scientific Name

  Leavenworthia Torr.

• Description

  Species Description - Sep obtuse, erect to spreading; pet white to anthocyanic or yellow, narrowly spatulate-obovate to lingulate, retuse to truncate; ovary cylindric, with a short, stout, scarcely differentiated style and capitate stigma; frs typically linear to oblong and compressed parallel to the septum, but varying to terete or subglobose; valves reticulately veined, the midnerve evident only near the base; seeds in a single row, flattened, evidently winged to virtually wingless; racemes arising from the base of the pl, either reduced to a single long-pedicellate fl (seemingly on a scape), or with a short rachis scarcely surpassing the basal lvs and bearing a few long pedicels; small, glabrous winter-annuals of thin, vernally wet, summer-dry soil in calcareous cedar-glades, and now also in disturbed habitats, as along roadsides, blooming in early spring, the earliest lvs simple, the others lyrate-pinnatifid. 7, c. and sc. U.S.A.