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Boechera fecunda
Also called Sapphire Rockcress
Boechera fecunda (syn. Arabis fecunda) is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names Mt. Sapphire rockcress and Sapphire rockcress. It is endemic to Montana in the United States, where there are twenty known occurrences in three counties.
This plant grows in Ravalli, Beaverhead, and Silver Bow Counties in Montana. It grows in the ecotone between the lower tree line and the shrub- and grasslands. It grows on steep, eroding cliffs that are sparsely vegetated. The soils are calcareous, made up of a calcium silicate parent rock. The plant is associated with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus ponderosa. The plant commonly grows in areas covered in a cryptogamic soil crust, which appears to have a beneficial effect on the plants.
Boechera constancei · Brewer's rockcress · Cobre rockcress · Crandall's Rockcress · Pinyon Rockcress · Grouse Creek Rockcress · Gunnison's Rockcress · Hoffmann's Rockcress · Holboell's Rockcress · Lemmon's Rockcress · Ophir Pass Rockcress · Glenwood Springs Rockcress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Boechera fecunda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
