Lesquerella
Family: Brassicaceae
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Sep erect to spreading, obtuse; pet yellow (in ours), obovate to narrowly spatulate; glands at base of the small stamens 2, often confluent or appendaged; ovary subglobose, often short-stipitate; ovules 1-15 per locule; style slender, ±elongate, usually persistent; stigma capitate; fr short, usually inflated, globose to ellipsoid or obovoid, or sometimes ±flattened; herbs ±canescent with stellate hairs or scales, and with entire or toothed to seldom pinnatifid lvs. 90, N. and S. Amer., Siberia.

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

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Species within checklist: Flora of the Southern Colorado Plateau Network
Lesquerella fendleri
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Lesquerella intermedia
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Lesquerella ludoviciana
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Lesquerella purpurea
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Lesquerella rectipes
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Lesquerella wardii
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