Physaria chambersii |
Physaria oregona |
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Chambers' bladderpod |
Oregon twinpod |
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Habit | Plants cespitose, silvery; caudices present. | Plants cespitose, silvery pubescent; with simple caudices. |
Stems | arising laterally, 5–15 cm. |
erect to decumbent, 10–35 cm. |
Basal leaves | obovate to orbicular, 3–6 × 1–2 cm; margins entire or dentate. |
obovate, 4–6 cm, incised or toothed along petioles. |
Cauline leaves | spatulate, 1–2 cm × 3–6 mm; margins entire. |
oblanceolate, 1.5–2.5 cm; margins entire or dentate. |
Inflorescences | fruiting pedicels divaricate, slightly sigmoid, 8–15 mm. |
fruiting pedicels spreading, curved upward, 10–20 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 oblong, 5–7 mm; petals spatulate, 9–12 mm; lemon-yellow; ovules 8 per ovary; styles 1–2 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. |
slightly angustiseptate; terete, 10–12 mm; tips notched; basal sinus lacking, retaining seeds after dehiscence; valves strongly inflated; bladdery, rounded, not angled on back; replums lanceolate, 6–8 mm; narrower than fruits; acute at tips. |
Seeds | not margined. |
not margined. |
Trichomes | few-rayed, with umbos; rays forked, slightly tuberculate. |
stipitate, with few forked rays, tuberculate. |
2n | =8, 10, 16, 24. |
=8. |
Physaria chambersii |
Physaria oregona |
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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. |
Serpentine areas, rocky slopes, gravelly banks, dry hillsides. Flowering Apr–Jun. 500–1800 m. BW. ID. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 501 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 503 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Sibling taxa | ||
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