Physaria chambersii |
Physaria kingii |
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Chambers' bladderpod |
King's bladderpod |
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Habit | Plants cespitose, silvery; caudices present. | Plants caudices present. |
Stems | arising laterally, 5–15 cm. |
prostrate or decumbent to ascending or erect, 5–20(40) cm. |
Basal leaves | obovate to orbicular, 3–6 × 1–2 cm; margins entire or dentate. |
suborbicular, oblanceolate, elliptic, or rhombic; (1.2)2–6(8) cm; margins entire, sinuate, or lobed. |
Cauline leaves | spatulate, 1–2 cm × 3–6 mm; margins entire. |
obovate to elliptic, 0.5–2 cm. |
Inflorescences | fruiting pedicels divaricate, slightly sigmoid, 8–15 mm. |
fruiting pedicels straight, recurved, or sigmoid, 4.5–10(15) mm. |
Flowers | sepals narrowly lanceolate, 5–8(9) mm; petals narrowly oblanceolate, 9–12 mm, yellow; claws undifferentiated; ovules 4–12 per ovary; styles (4)6–8 mm. |
sepals lanceolate, 4–6(7) mm; petals obovate to oblanceolate, 6–13 mm, yellow; creamy white, or white; styles 2–9 mm. |
Fruits | didymous; terete, bases obtuse to subcordate; tips notched, pubescent, retaining seeds after dehiscence; valves keeled and 3-angled on back; flat-sided; bladdery, strongly inflated, 1–1.5 × ~1 cm; replums oblong, obtuse at tip, 4–6 × ~1 mm; narrower than fruits. |
subglobose to obovoid; terete, 3.2–9 mm; tips not notched, usually shedding seeds during dehiscence; valves densely pubescent outside, glabrous or sparsely pubescent inside; replums as wide as fruits. |
Seeds | not margined. |
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Trichomes | few-rayed, with umbos; rays forked, slightly tuberculate. |
3–7-rayed; rays distinct or basally united, 1–3-forked at base, sessile or short-stalked. |
2n | =8, 10, 16, 24. |
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Physaria chambersii |
Physaria kingii |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Loose gravel, clay hillsides, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper communities, steep road banks. Flowering Apr–Jun. 500–1400 m. BR, BW, Owy. CA, NV; southeast to AZ. Native. |
Western US. 7 subspecies; 2 subspecies treated in Flora. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 501 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 502 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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Synonyms | Lesquerella kingii | |
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