Smooth rockcress

(Boechera burkii)

Description

Boechera burkii is a cross-flowered plant species first described by Thomas Conrad Porter now known as Windham and Al-Shehbaz. Boechera burkii is part of the genus Indiantravar and the family cross-flowered plants

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:

Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum:

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order:Brassicales

Family:Brassicaceae

Genus:Boechera

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