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|accepted_name=Boechera covillei
|accepted_authority=(Greene) Windham & Al-Shehbaz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Harvard Pap. Bot.
|place=12: 237. 2007
|year=2007
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arabis covillei
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|publication_title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|publication_place=5: 243. 1908
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arabis leibergii
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Boechereae;Boechera;Boechera covillei
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Boechereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Boechera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Boechera covillei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 351, 356, 372, 398
|treatment_page=page 371
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; long-lived; apomictic; caudex woody. <b>Stems</b> usually 1 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, 0.5–2.5 dm, glabrous throughout. <b>Basal</b> leaves: blade oblanceolate, 1.5–5 mm wide, margins entire, ciliate proximally, trichomes (simple), to 0.4 mm, and distally, trichomes short-stalked, 2 or 3 (or 4)-rayed, 0.15–0.4 mm, surfaces glabrous. <b>Cauline</b> leaves: 2–7, not concealing stem; blade with auricles 0.2–1 mm, auricles rarely absent, surfaces of distalmost leaves glabrous. <b>Racemes</b> 2–9-flowered, unbranched. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels ascending to suberect, straight, 6–20 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> ascending at anthesis; sepals glabrous; petals lavender to purplish, 5–6 × 1–2 mm, glabrous; pollen spheroid. <b>Fruits</b> ascending to suberect, rarely appressed to rachis, not secund, straight, edges slightly undulate (rarely parallel), 3.5–5 cm × 3–5 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 18–30 per ovary; style 0.2–1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> uniseriate, 4–5 × 3–4 mm; wing continuous, 1–1.5 mm wide.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Rocky slopes in alpine meadows and open coniferous forests
|elevation=2200-3500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p>Morphological evidence suggests that <i>Boechera covillei</i> is an apomictic species that arose through hybridization between <i>B. howellii</i> and <i>B. lyallii</i> (see M. D. Windham and I. A. Al-Shehbaz 2007b for detailed comparison).</p>
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name=Boechera covillei
|authority=(Greene) Windham & Al-Shehbaz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Arabis leibergii
|basionyms=Arabis covillei
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Rocky slopes in alpine meadows and open coniferous forests
|elevation=2200-3500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Harvard Pap. Bot.
|publication year=2007
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Boechereae
|genus=Boechera
|species=Boechera covillei
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