Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Thysanocarpus curvipes Hooker
(Fringe-Pod, Sand Fringepod)

Family: Brassicaceae

Status: Native

Synonyms:
Thysanocarpus amplectens Greene

Thysanocarpus curvipes is a diminutive, frail plant. There is usually one erect stem, and the flowers are minute and white. The fruit is the distinctive characteristic-- it is flat and round, and the edge is smoothly and transparently winged around what otherwise would have been a toothed margin. Thysanocarpus curvipes grows on dry hillsides at middle elevations.
Please click on an image for a larger file.



Thysanocarpus curvipes, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Burro Mtns., Wild Horse Canyon, Apr. 4, 2007



Thysanocarpus curvipes, 2x field macro of fruit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009



Thysanocarpus curvipes, 2x field macro of fruit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009



Thysanocarpus curvipes, closeup of fruit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009



Thysanocarpus curvipes, closeup of flower and fruit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009



Thysanocarpus curvipes, glabrous, clasping leaves, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Arrastre Gulch, Apr. 10, 2009


Back to the Index