Physaria alpestris |
Physaria eriocarpa |
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alpine twin-pod, Washington bladder-pod, Washington twin-pod |
sheep mountain bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex usually simple, rarely branched, (cespitose); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes several-rayed, rays (1- or) 2-bifurcate, (low-umbonate, tubercles relatively few, small). | Perennials; caudex branched, (thickened, cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes 5- or 6-rayed, rays slightly fused at base, furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate throughout). |
Stems | several from base, decumbent to ascending, (unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm. |
few from base, well-exserted from basal leaves, 0.4–1(–1.2) dm. |
Basal leaves | (petiole slender); blade obovate, 3–5 cm (width 10–20 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex rarely slightly acute). |
blade (erect), obovate to orbicular, 1.5–2.5 cm, (base evidently distinct from petiole), margins entire, (folded). |
Cauline leaves | blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire. |
blade spatulate, margins entire. |
Racemes | subcorymbose. |
compact, subumbellate. |
Flowers | sepals oblong, 8–10 mm; petals spatulate, 12–14 mm. |
sepals (pale yellow), 4–5 mm; petals lingulate, 6–7 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate, straight), 5–10 mm. |
(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), 5–8 mm. |
Fruits | didymous, mostly highly inflated (strongly flattened at least in 1/2 toward replum), 14–18 × 14–18 mm, (papery, basal sinus slightly notched, apical open, shallow); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly pubescent; replum lanceolate, 7–10 mm, width 1.5–2.5 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to acuminate; ovules 8–10 per ovary; style 5–7 mm. |
ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (apex not compressed), 3–4 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes erect on mature fruits, (± appearing fuzzy); ovules 8 per ovary; style 4–5 mm, (glabrous). |
Seeds | flattened, (2–3 mm). |
plump. |
2n | = 48–52, 52, 64, 67–70. |
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Physaria alpestris |
Physaria eriocarpa |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Alpine scree, rocky ridges, talus slopes, volcanic sands and gravel, serpentine gravel, granitic slopes, mountain shrub, subalpine fir, and whitebark pine communities | Windswept ridge lines and mountain peaks in limestone rubble and cobbles |
Elevation | (700-)1300-2400 m ((2300-)4300-7900 ft) | 2600-3000 m (8500-9800 ft) |
Distribution |
WA
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MT |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Physaria eriocarpa is known from Sheep Mountain. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 624. | FNA vol. 7, p. 636. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella alpestris | |
Name authority | Suksdorf: W. Amer. Sci. 15: 58. (1906) | Grady & O’Kane: Novon 17: 184, fig. 3. (2007) |
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