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King's bladderpod

Habit Plants caudices present.
Stems

prostrate or decumbent to ascending or erect, 5–20(40) cm.

Basal leaves

suborbicular, oblanceolate, elliptic, or rhombic; (1.2)2–6(8) cm;

margins entire, sinuate, or lobed.

Cauline leaves

obovate to elliptic, 0.5–2 cm.

Inflorescences

fruiting pedicels straight, recurved, or sigmoid, 4.5–10(15) mm.

Flowers

sepals lanceolate, 4–6(7) mm;

petals obovate to oblanceolate, 6–13 mm, yellow; creamy white, or white;

styles 2–9 mm.

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.

Trichomes

3–7-rayed;

rays distinct or basally united, 1–3-forked at base, sessile or short-stalked.

Physaria purpurea

Physaria kingii

Distribution
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Discussion

Western US. 7 subspecies; 2 subspecies treated in Flora.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 502
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Sibling taxa
P. chambersii, 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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