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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Thelypodium flexuosum
|accepted_authority=B. L. Robinson in A. Gray et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1(1,1): 175. 1895
|year=1895
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Thelypodieae;Thelypodium;Thelypodium flexuosum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Thelypodieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Thelypodium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Thelypodium flexuosum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 729
|treatment_page=page 731
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; (caudex woody, covered with persistent petiolar remains); somewhat glaucous, glabrous throughout. <b>Stems</b> (often subdecumbent), branched basally, (flexuous), 1.5–5.6(–8.5) dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves: petiole 1–6.5(–13) cm; blade often lanceolate, sometimes oblong or oblanceolate, (2–)3.5–16.5(–20.5) cm × (5–)10–25(–45) mm, margins entire. <b>Cauline</b> leaves (ascending); sessile; blade lanceolate to linear, 1–7(–11) cm × 2–7(–14) mm, (base sagittate to somewhat amplexicaul), margins entire. <b>Racemes</b> (few-flowered, corymbose), elongated in fruit, (flower buds oblong). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels usually horizontal to divaricate, rarely divaricate-ascending, straight or slightly curved upward, slender, (2.5–)4–9(–16) mm, slightly flattened at base. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect, oblong, 3–4(–4.5) × 1–1.5(–1.7) mm; petals lavender or white, often spatulate, sometimes oblanceolate or obovate, 6–9(–10) × (1.5–)2–3(–3.5) mm, margins not crisped, claw strongly differentiated from blade, (slender, 2–3.5(–4) mm, narrowest at base); nectar glands lateral, median glands absent; filaments tetradynamous, median pairs 3–4(–5) mm, lateral pair 2–3.5(–4) mm; anthers included, oblong, 1–2(–2.5) mm, not circinately coiled; gynophore (stout), 0.5–1 mm. <b>Fruits</b> erect to ascending, torulose, slightly incurved or straight, terete, 1–2.5(–4.2) cm × 0.8–1(–1.5) mm; ovules 12–30 per ovary; style cylindrical, (0.3–)1–2(–3) mm. <b>Seeds</b> (1–)1.3–1.5 × 0.5–8(–1) mm. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Often tangled among woody shrubs in moderately to strongly alkaline sandy loam or clay, open deserts
|elevation=1000-2400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.
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name=Thelypodium flexuosum
|authority=B. L. Robinson in A. Gray et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Often tangled among woody shrubs in moderately to strongly alkaline sandy loam or clay, open deserts
|elevation=1000-2400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1895
|special status=Endemic
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Thelypodieae
|genus=Thelypodium
|species=Thelypodium flexuosum
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