Physaria bellii |
Physaria pruinosa |
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Bell's or Front Range twinpod, Bell's twinpod, Front Range twinpod |
frosty bladderpod, Pagosa bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple, (relatively large); densely (silvery) pubescent, trichomes (sessile, appressed), rays furcate, fused at base. | Perennials; caudex simple or branched, (covered with persistent leaf bases); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or subsessile), 4–7-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate throughout). |
Stems | simple from base, decumbent to nearly prostrate, 0.5–1.3 dm. |
simple or several from base, decumbent or erect, (unbranched), to 2 dm. |
Basal leaves | (strongly rosulate; shortly petiolate); blade broadly obovate, 1.5–7.5 (width 7.5–26 mm, base gradually tapering to petiole), margins shallowly dentate, (apex obtuse). |
(petiole sharply differentiated from blade, slender); blade suborbicular or obovate to rhombic, 4–8 cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (abaxial surface densely pubescent, adaxial lightly pubescent). |
Cauline leaves | blade oblanceolate to broadly obovate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire. |
(proximal petiolate, distal sessile); blade obovate to rhombic, 0.8–2.3 cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed. |
Racemes | dense. |
dense, (somewhat elongated in fruit). |
Flowers | sepals (pale yellow or yellow-green), narrowly lanceolate to narrowly deltate, 4–8 mm; petals yellow, broadly spatulate to obovate, 9–13 mm, (not clawed). |
sepals elliptic or oblong, ca. 6 mm, (lateral pair not saccate or subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals spatulate, ca. 9 mm, (claw expanded at base). |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, slightly sigmoid to curved), 7–12 mm. |
(horizontal to ascending, sigmoid or slightly curved), 8–11 mm, (stout). |
Fruits | didymous, slightly flattened (contrary to replum) to uncompressed, 4–9 × 2–8 mm, (strongly coriaceous, apical and basal sinuses narrow, deep); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes appressed; replum narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly linear-oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse; ovules 4 per ovary; style more than 3 mm. |
(sessile or substipitate, often becoming copper-red in age), subglobose or ellipsoid, inflated, 6–9 mm, (firm, glossy); valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4–8(–12) per ovary; style 3.5–7 mm. |
Seeds | compressed. |
somewhat flattened. |
2n | = 8. |
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Physaria bellii |
Physaria pruinosa |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun(-Jul). | Flowering May–Jun(-Aug). |
Habitat | Dark shale, road cuts, ridge crests, washes | Mancos slate or shale, meadows, gentle slopes, edges of ponderosa pine stands |
Elevation | 1500-1800 m (4900-5900 ft) | 2100-2600 m (6900-8500 ft) |
Distribution |
CO
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CO; NM |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Physaria bellii is often found in shale and limestone soils of the Fountain/Ingleside, Lykins, Niobrara, and Pierre formations. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. The one New Mexico population is near the border with Colorado, in Rio Arriba County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 628. | FNA vol. 7, p. 658. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella pruinosa | |
Name authority | G. A. Mulligan: Canad. J. Bot. 44: 1662, fig. 1, plate 1, fig. 3. (1966) | (Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 327. (2002) |
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