Borodinia burkii(Porter) P.J.Alexander & Windham

WFO wfo-0001336527 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Borodinia burkii, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. a Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-14 / obs. 67008389
Borodinia burkii, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. b Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67013239
Borodinia burkii, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. c Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67013258
Borodinia burkii, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. d Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67008379
Borodinia burkii, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. e Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67013247
Borodinia burkii, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. f Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67013267
Borodinia burkii, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. g Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67013286
Borodinia burkii, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. h Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67013277

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 1846086
Filed as
Boechera burkii (Porter) Windham & Al-Shehbaz
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
C. V. Morton 1930-06-08
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Borodinia burkii is native: Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia KentuckyMarylandNorth CarolinaPennsylvaniaTennesseeVirginiaWest Virginia
Native distribution of Borodinia burkii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Kentucky KTY NORTHERN AMERICA
Maryland MRY
North Carolina NCA
Pennsylvania PEN
Tennessee TEN
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Arabis burkii (Porter) Small
  • Arabis laevigata var. burkii Porter
  • Boechera burkii (Porter) Windham & Al-Shehbaz

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.