Aubrieta ekimii

Caespitose herbs forming lax to dense cushions, sparsely pubescent with a mixture of stalked, 2–4-rayed, dendroid and fewer setose simple trichomes. Flowering stems 1–2 cm, slender. Basal leaves rosulate, spatulate to oblanceolate and entire, rarely rhombic and with 1 tooth on each side, 7–15 9 2.2–5 mm, usually glabrous on both surfaces, stalked 2–4-rayed and simple trichomes on leaf margin; cauline leaves oblanceolate, elliptic, or rhombic, 10–20 9 5–7 mm, usually entire, rarely with 1 tooth on each side, glabrous or with a very sparse indumentum of stalked 2–4-rayed and simple trichomes on leaf margin. Racemes lax, slender with 2–4 flowers; rachis slightly flexuous; fruiting pedicels erect to ascending, 8–14 mm, pubescent. Sepals oblong, 6.5–9 mm, pubescent, inner sepals saccate, margins membraneous, white, usually violet at apex; petals violet, obovate, 6.5–8 9 4.5–6.7 mm, attenuate to claw 8.2–10 mm; filaments narrowly winged, white in lower half, violet towards apex, median filaments ca. 11 mm, lateral filaments ca. 8.3 mm with tooth-like lateral appendage; anthers ovate, ca. 2 mm. Fruit linear, 30–42 9 2.5–3 mm , curved or straight, strongly compressed, glabrescent or with stalked 3- or 4-rayed and subsessile 2- or 3-rayed trichomes, mature valves slightly reticulate-veined; style 5.4–9 mm; stigma capitate, entire. Seeds biseriate, 7–18 in each locule, dark brown,  rotund to broadly elliptic, wingless, not mucilaginous when wetted, 1.5–1.6 9 1.2–1.3 mm, papillate.

Aubrieta ekimii flowers in April to early May, and mature fruits are produced in late May to early July.