Boechera ophira: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Brassicales
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Boechera
- Species
- Boechera ophira
- Scientific Name
- Boechera ophira
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Boechera ophira
Boechera ophira (formerly Arabis ophira) is a rare species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name Ophir Pass rockcress, or Ophir rockcress. It is endemic to Nevada in the United States, where it is known from Nye and Lander Counties. It grows on the crest of the Toiyabe Range.
This long-lived perennial herb produces hairy stems up to 14 centimeters tall from a woody caudex. There are narrow, hairy leaves around the stem bases and a few higher on the stems. The inflorescence is a raceme of 6 to 15 flowers with purple petals. The fruit is a straight silique up to 4 centimeters long.
This plant grows in subalpine climates at the crest of the Toiyabe mountain range on clay soils covered in loose quartzite scree. It grows in sagebrush habitat alongside Artemisia arbuscula, Leptodactylon pungens, and various grasses.
There are only five known occurrences of this plant, for a total of fewer than 200 individuals. The habitat is rugged and difficult to explore so more plants may exist.
...Boechera ophira in languages:
- English
- Ophir Pass Rockcress
- English
- Ophir Rockcress
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Boechera acutina
- Boechera arcuata
- Boechera atrorubens
- Boechera austromontana
- Boechera bodiensis
- Boechera breweri
- Boechera calderi
- Boechera californica
- Boechera carrizozoensis
- Boechera cascadensis
- Boechera centrifendleri
- Boechera cobrensis
- Boechera collinsii
- Boechera consanguinea
- Boechera constancei
- Boechera covillei
- Boechera crandallii
- Boechera cusickii
- Boechera davidsonii
- Boechera depauperata
- Boechera dispar
- Boechera divaricarpa
- Boechera drepanoloba
- Boechera duchesnensis
- Boechera duriuscula
- Boechera elkoensis
- Boechera evadens
- Boechera falcata
- Boechera falcatoria
- Boechera falcifructa
- Boechera fecunda
- Boechera fendleri
- Boechera fernaldiana
- Boechera formosa
- Boechera fructicosa
- Boechera glareosa
- Boechera glaucovalvula
- Boechera goodrichii
- Boechera gracilenta
- Boechera gracilipes
- Boechera grahamii
- Boechera gunnisoniana
- Boechera harrisonii
- Boechera hastatula
- Boechera hoffmannii
- Boechera holboellii
- Boechera horizontalis
- Boechera howellii
- Boechera inyoensis
- Boechera johnstonii
- Boechera koehleri
- Boechera languida
- Boechera lasiocarpa
- Boechera lemmonii
- Boechera lignifera
- Boechera lincolnensis
- Boechera lyallii
- Boechera macounii
- Boechera microphylla
- Boechera nevadensis
- Boechera ophira
- Boechera oxylobula
- Boechera paddoensis
- Boechera pallidifolia
- Boechera parishii
- Boechera pauciflora
- Boechera paupercula
- Boechera peirsonii
- Boechera pendulina
- Boechera pendulocarpa
- Boechera perennans
- Boechera pinetorum
- Boechera pinzliae
- Boechera platysperma
- Boechera polyantha
- Boechera porphyrea
- Boechera pratincola
- Boechera pseudoconsanguinea
- Boechera puberula
- Boechera pulchra
- Boechera pusilla
- Boechera pygmaea
- Boechera quadrangulensis
- Boechera quebecensis
- Boechera rectissima
- Boechera retrofracta
- Boechera rigidissima
- Boechera rollei
- Boechera rollinsiorum
- Boechera sanluisensis
- Boechera saximontana
- Boechera schistacea
- Boechera serpenticola
- Boechera shevockii
- Boechera shockleyi
- Boechera sparsiflora
- Boechera spatifolia
- Boechera stricta
- Boechera subpinnatifida
- Boechera suffrutescens
- Boechera texana
- Boechera thompsonii
- Boechera tiehmii
- Boechera tularensis
- Boechera ultraalsa
- Boechera villosa
- Boechera williamsii
- Boechera xylopoda
- Boechera yorkii
- Boechera zephyra
- Boechera × rubicundula


