Thelypodium Laxiflorum
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''Thelypodium laxiflorum'', the droopflower thelypody, is a plant species native to the southwestern United States. It grows in open, rocky places on slopes and cliff faces, usually in pinyon-juniper woodlands at elevations of . It has been reported from Utah, western Colorado, southern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico.Flora of North America v 7 p 735.
/ref> ''Thelypodium laxiflorum'' is a glabrous perennial. Stems are up to tall, branching well above ground. It has both basal and cauline (stem) leaves. Flowers are white, rarely lavender, born in
cymes An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed on ...
. Fruits are long and narrow, visibly constricted between the seeds.Holmgren, N. H., P. K. Holmgren & A.J. Cronquist. 2005. Vascular plants of the intermountain west, U.S.A., subclass Dilleniidae. 2(B): 1–488. In A.J. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal & P. K. Holmgren (eds.) Intermountain Flora. Hafner Pub. Co., New York.


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15549935 laxiflorum Flora of Colorado Flora of Nevada Flora of Utah Flora of Arizona Flora of New Mexico Flora without expected TNC conservation status