Physaria alpina |
Physaria dornii |
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Avery Peak or alpine twinpod, Avery Peak twinpod |
Dorn's twinpod, tunp range twinpod |
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Habit | Perennials; (with a long taproot), caudex usually buried, simple, (enlarged, covered with marcescent leaf bases, crown rosulate and horizontal to somewhat ascending, forming a dense crown at apex of caudex); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes (sessile or stipitate), 5–8-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (rounded to umbonate, strongly tuberculate, less so or smooth over center). | Perennials; (compact); caudex simple, (stout); densely (silvery) pubescent throughout (except style), trichomes several-rayed, rays furcate, fused at base, (umbonate, tuberculate throughout). |
Stems | few from base, decumbent, (arising laterally proximal to current season’s leaves), 0.3–0.8 dm. |
simple from base, erect, (arising from a condensed rosette), to 1 dm. |
Basal leaves | (petiole slender); blade broadly obovate, or deltate to ovate or narrower, 1.5–3.5 cm, (base abruptly to gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire or obscurely few-toothed, (apex usually obtuse, nearly acute in narrower leaves). |
(ascending or erect); blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, (usually curled from middle to apex), (1.5–)5–7 cm (width 12–20 mm), margins entire. |
Cauline leaves | (2–5 per stem); blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, margins entire, (apex acute). |
(1–5); blade oblanceolate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire. |
Racemes | loose, (3–6-flowered). |
compact (or elongated in fruit, to 1 dm, barely exceeding leaves). |
Flowers | sepals narrowly oblong to linear, 7–9 mm; petals (erect), spatulate, 10–12(–15) mm. |
sepals (erect), oblong to linear or spatulate, 5.5–7 mm; petals spatulate, 10–14 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade). |
Fruiting pedicels | (widely spreading to ascending, slightly curved or straight), 7–11 mm. |
(divaricate-ascending, slightly curved), 7–18 mm. |
Fruits | (usually purplish in age), didymous, irregular and somewhat angular, not highly inflated, 4–11 × 10–13 mm, (coriaceous, papery, shallowly grooved distally and on sides, tapered and narrowed toward replum, base obtuse to truncate, apex with broad sinus to nearly truncate); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, not silvery; replum elliptic to obovate, as wide as or wider than fruit, base rounded, margins sparsely pubescent or glabrous, apex rounded (with funicles); ovules 4 per ovary; style 5–7 mm, (glabrous). |
didymous, irregular, highly inflated, 8–11(–18) × 10–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus shallower than the deep apical sinus; valves retaining seeds after dehiscence); replum obovate, not constricted, 1–1.8 mm, apex obtuse, as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules (4–)8(–12) per ovary; style 4–6 mm, (glabrous). |
Seeds | flattened. |
flattened, (oblong to elliptic, thin-margined or not). |
Physaria alpina |
Physaria dornii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Whitish or red substrates from limestone or dolomite, ridge crests, rocky alpine tundra and open areas | Calcareous shale, slopes, ridges |
Elevation | 3500-4000 m (11500-13100 ft) | 1900-2200 m (6200-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
CO
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WY |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 624. | FNA vol. 7, p. 634. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Rollins: Brittonia 33: 339. (1981) | Lichvar: Brittonia 35: 150, figs. 1–3. (1983) |
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