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Chambers' bladderpod

King's bladderpod

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.

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.

Physaria chambersii

Physaria kingii

Distribution
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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
Sibling taxa
P. douglasii, P. geyeri, P. kingii, P. occidentalis, P. oregona
P. chambersii, P. douglasii, P. geyeri, P. occidentalis, P. oregona
Subordinate taxa
P. kingii ssp. cobrensis, P. kingii ssp. diversifolia
Synonyms Lesquerella kingii
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