Physaria alpestris |
Physaria saximontana |
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alpine twin-pod, Washington bladder-pod, Washington twin-pod |
Fremont County twinpod, Rocky Mountain or Fremont County twinpod |
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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 usually simple; (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichome rays furcate. | ||||
Stems | several from base, decumbent to ascending, (unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm. |
several from base, prostrate to decumbent, 0.3–1 dm. |
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Basal leaves | (petiole slender); blade obovate, 3–5 cm (width 10–20 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex rarely slightly acute). |
(rosulate; petiole winged); blade orbicular to broadly obovate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire or with broad, obscure toothlike angles each side at apex, (apex obtuse, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes appressed). |
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Cauline leaves | blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire. |
blade broadly spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm, margins entire. |
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Racemes | subcorymbose. |
condensed, (subumbellate to slightly more elongated, few-flowered). |
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Flowers | sepals oblong, 8–10 mm; petals spatulate, 12–14 mm. |
sepals (yellowish, often with some purple), narrowly lanceolate, 5–6 mm; petals spatulate, 7.3–9.2 mm, (not clawed). |
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Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate, straight), 5–10 mm. |
(divaricate-ascending, straight to slightly curved), 6–10 mm. |
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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. |
didymous, irregular, suborbicular, deeply bilobed, inflated in age, 10–12 × 12–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent or obsolete, apical sinus deep); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, (ovaries and immature fruit downy); replum narrowly ovate to broadly oblong, not narrowed at middle, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to obtuse; ovules 4 per ovary; style 3–7 mm. |
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Seeds | flattened, (2–3 mm). |
flattened. |
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2n | = 48–52, 52, 64, 67–70. |
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Physaria alpestris |
Physaria saximontana |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | |||||
Habitat | Alpine scree, rocky ridges, talus slopes, volcanic sands and gravel, serpentine gravel, granitic slopes, mountain shrub, subalpine fir, and whitebark pine communities | |||||
Elevation | (700-)1300-2400 m ((2300-)4300-7900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
WA
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MT; WY |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Physaria saximontana (especially subsp. dentata) is morphologically similar to 22. P. didymocarpa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 624. | FNA vol. 7, p. 661. | ||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Lesquerella alpestris | |||||
Name authority | Suksdorf: W. Amer. Sci. 15: 58. (1906) | Rollins: Contr. Gray Herb. 214: 13. (1984) | ||||
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