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Physaria angustifolia

threadleaf bladderpod
Habit Annuals; with a fine taproot; ± densely pubescent, trichomes several-rayed, rays distinct or fused at base, bifurcate, (prominently tuberculate throughout).
Stems

simple or few to several from base, erect, (sometimes branched), to 4 dm.
Basal leaves

blade elliptic to rhombic, 3–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually to petiole), margins entire, repand, coarsely toothed, or pinnatifid.
Cauline leaves

(proximal often shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear or narrowly obovate, 1.5–6(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly toothed.
Racemes

usually loose.
Flowers

sepals elliptic or ovate, 4–6 mm, (lateral pair usually subsaccate);

petals obovate to obdeltate, 6–10 mm, (apex often emarginate).
Fruiting pedicels

(usually divaricate, sometimes horizontal, straight or slightly curved), 8–20 mm.
Fruits

not didymous, ± globose, slightly inflated, 4–6 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3.5 mm; (stigma expanded).
Seeds

flattened, (margined).
2n

= 10.

Physaria angustifolia
Phenology Flowering Apr(-May).
Habitat Shallow limestone-derived soils, sometimes spreading to disturbed sites
Elevation 90-300 m (300-1000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
OK; TX
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 625.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria
Sibling taxa
P. acutifolia, P. alpestris, P. alpina, P. arctica, P. arenosa, P. argyraea, P. arizonica, P. aurea, P. bellii, P. brassicoides, P. calcicola, P. calderi, P. carinata, P. chambersii, P. cinerea, P. condensata, P. congesta, P. cordiformis, P. curvipes, P. densiflora, P. didymocarpa, P. dornii, P. douglasii, P. eburniflora, P. engelmannii, P. eriocarpa, P. fendleri, P. filiformis, P. floribunda, P. fremontii, P. garrettii, P. geyeri, P. globosa, P. gooddingii, P. gordonii, P. gracilis, P. grahamii, P. hemiphysaria, P. hitchcockii, P. humilis, P. integrifolia, P. intermedia, P. kingii, P. klausii, P. lata, P. lepidota, P. lesicii, P. lindheimeri, P. ludoviciana, P. macrocarpa, P. mcvaughiana, P. montana, P. multiceps, P. navajoensis, P. nelsonii, P. newberryi, P. obcordata, P. obdeltata, P. occidentalis, P. oregona, P. ovalifolia, P. pachyphylla, P. pallida, P. parviflora, P. parvula, P. pendula, P. pinetorum, P. prostrata, P. pruinosa, P. pulvinata, P. purpurea, P. pycnantha, P. rectipes, P. recurvata, P. reediana, P. rollinsii, P. saximontana, P. scrotiformis, P. sessilis, P. spatulata, P. subumbellata, P. tenella, P. thamnophila, P. tumulosa, P. valida, P. vicina, P. vitulifera
Synonyms Vesicaria angustifolia, Lesquerella angustifolia, Lesquerella longifolia
Name authority (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 321. (2002)
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