Colorado Mesa University, Walter A. Kelley Herbarium (MESA)
MESA05061
298117da-bfb7-4a0d-aea5-4890bf056476
Mesa 4983
Stanleya albescens M.E. Jones
BRASSICACEAE
Stephen B. Austin
177b
1998-05-11
United States, Colorado, Mesa, Along Lands End Road.
38.934852 -108.384558 WGS84
7.5' Whitewater quad; T2S R2E S33 SW1/4;
Certainty code: 1
1500 meters
4920 FT
In clay soil; in a desert habitat; in a borrow pit along road.
An erect perennial herb; flowers cream-colored.
Flower and fruit
In crack on a rock, open windblown grassland with nearby bitterroot erigeron, and fringed sagebrush. Soil: dry aeolian cryorthent derived from Madison lime- and sand-stone. Height: 3 cm. Fresh petals: purplish-blue, 10PB5/10.,