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Huber's Pepperplant (Lepidium huberi)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Huber's Pepperplant (Lepidium huberi)

Lepidium huberi is a woody subshrub found in Uintah County, Utah. It grows in sand or silty sands from the Jurassic Navajo formation (Glen Canyon), Trias...


Uinta Mountains draba (Draba inexpectata)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Uinta Mountains draba (Draba inexpectata)

Draba inexpectata or Uinta Mountains draba gets its name from the range it’s endemic to in Utah. This perennial herb is a short growing alpine species ...


Barneby Ridgecress (Lepidium barnebyanum)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Barneby Ridgecress (Lepidium barnebyanum)

Lepidium barneybyanum is a federally listed as endangered species known from a single locality in the Indian Canyon region of Duchesne County, Utah. Thi...


Schell Creek draba (Draba pennellii)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Schell Creek draba (Draba pennellii)

Draba pennellii or Pennell’s draba is a perennial mustard with white flowers that grows primarily in Nevada and west-central Utah in rocky areas betwee...


Garrett Bladderpod (Lesquerella garrettii)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Garrett Bladderpod (Lesquerella garrettii)

Garrett bladderpod, Physaria garrettii, is endemic to Utah in the Davis, Utah, Wasatch, and Salt Lake Counties. This mustard can be found in alpine tundr...


Snowbasin Rockcress (Boechera glareosa)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Snowbasin Rockcress (Boechera glareosa)

B. glareosa is a rare forb endemic to an extremely narrow range in northeastern Utah and adjacent areas of Colorado. First described in 2003, current threats an...


Grouse Creek Rockcress (Boechera falcatoria)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Grouse Creek Rockcress (Boechera falcatoria)

Boechera falcatoria or Grouse Creek Rockcress appears to be an apomictic triploid hybrid between Boechera cusickii and B. pendulina and/or<...


Shrubby Reed-mustard (Hesperidanthus suffrutescens)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Shrubby Reed-mustard (Hesperidanthus suffrutescens)

Hesperidanthus suffrutescens, is a federally listed as endangered species that occurs in mixed desert shrub communities, shale barrens, dec...


Mount Belknap Draba (Draba ramulosa)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Mount Belknap Draba (Draba ramulosa)

Draba ramulosa is known from Beaver County and Piute County, Utah where it is known only from the slopes of Mt. Belknapp in the eastern Tushar Mountains....


Maguire's Whitlow-grass (Draba maguirei ssp. maguirei)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Maguire's Whitlow-grass (Draba maguirei ssp. maguirei)

Draba maguirei is known from Cache County, Utah where it is known only from the Bear River Range. This species grows in cracks and crevices and ...


Kodachrome Bladderpod (Physaria tumulosa)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Kodachrome Bladderpod (Physaria tumulosa)

Physaria tumulosa is known from barren white knolls in sagebrush and pinyon pine communities in Kane County, Utah. Kodachrome bladderpod forms dense, lo...


Clay Reed-mustard (Hesperidanthus argillaceus)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Clay Reed-mustard (Hesperidanthus argillaceus)

Hesperidanthus argillaceus is a federally listed as threatened species known only from the Uintah Basin and upper Green River shale formation of Uintah C...


Creeping Draba (Draba sobolifera)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Creeping Draba (Draba sobolifera)

Draba sobolifera is known from Beaver County and Piute County, Utah where it is known only from the Tushar Mountains. Creeping Draba is found in alpi...


Burke's Whitlow-grass (Draba burkei)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Burke's Whitlow-grass (Draba burkei)

Draba burkei is known from Box Elder, Cache and Weber Counties, Utah where it is known only in the northern Wasatch Range. This species grows in cracks a...


Ostler Peppergrass (Lepidium ostleri)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Ostler Peppergrass (Lepidium ostleri)

Lepidium ostleri is known from Beaver County where it grows in the Utah Great Basin. This species is only found in the San Francisco Mountains ...


Frisco Mountains mustard (Terraria haydenii)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Frisco Mountains mustard (Terraria haydenii)

Terraria haydenii is an endemic species discovered only recently (2012) in the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah's Great Basin. It lives in dry, highly alkaline ...


Barneby's Reed-Mustard (Hesperidanthus barnebyi)

» Plants (Plantae) › Flowering Plants (Anthophyta) › Dicots (Dicotyledoneae) › Mustards/Capers (Capparales) › Mustards (Brassicaceae) › Barneby's Reed-Mustard (Hesperidanthus barnebyi)

Hesperidanthus barnebyi, is a Federally listed as endangered plant that grows in desert communities on the Chinie Formation of the Colorado Plat...


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