Habit: Perennial herb, low-cespitose, cushion-like; caudex woody, many-branched; hairs simple or mixed with stalked forked or +- many-branched hairs.
Stem: scapose, erect, leaves 0--few.
Leaf: basal rosetted at tip of caudex branches, sessile, entire, thickened at base; cauline few or 0, bases not lobed.
Inflorescence: +- elongated; bracts 0--few.
Flower: sepals erect or ascending, base not sac-like; petals white to pale yellow.
Fruit: silicle, sessile, ovoid to ellipsoid, dehiscent, unsegmented; valves rounded or keeled, glabrous or hairy; stigma entire.
Seed: 1--4, plump, +- ovoid to oblong; wing 0.
Species In Genus: 2 species: western United States.
Etymology: (W.C. Cusick, Oregon plant collector, 1842--1922)
Jepson eFlora Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
Reference: Rollins 1988 J Jap Bot 63:65--69
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Cusickiella
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