Field notebooks, 1961-1993
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WYOMING 81394 - Lesquerella alpina (Nutt.) s. wats. Perennial. Stems several from a simple or branched caudex arising below a terminal tuft of erect leaves; decumbent. Fls. yellow, pedicels widely spreading, usually perpendicular. Sepals erect. Growing in red The slope of clay-like soil on a windswept knoll, 14 m. SE of Ten Sleep, Washakie Co. Wyo. SR 436 June 23, 1981 81395 - Lesquerella alpina (Nutt.) S. Wats. Perennial with an enlarged, usually simple caudex. Leaves often ascending the stems. Sepals greenish yellow, spreading at anthesis, petals yellow, midveinate. Pedicels sigmoid growing in white calcareous limestone. 11 mi SE of Ten Sleep, near SR 436, Washakie Co. Wyo June 23, 1981