Physaria calcicola |
Physaria bellii |
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Rocky Mountain bladderpod |
Bell's or Front Range twinpod, Bell's twinpod, Front Range twinpod |
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Habit | Perennials; (compact); caudex branched; densely (silvery) pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 5–8-rayed, rays distinct, furcate or bifurcate, (umbonate, tuberculate and the center less so). | Perennials; caudex simple, (relatively large); densely (silvery) pubescent, trichomes (sessile, appressed), rays furcate, fused at base. |
Stems | several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent, (unbranched, stout, usually sparsely leaved), 1–3 dm. |
simple from base, decumbent to nearly prostrate, 0.5–1.3 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade linear, 2–7(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate. |
(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). |
Cauline leaves | (sessile); blade (erect), spatulate to linear, (1–)2–3(–4.5) cm, margins entire, sometimes involute, (apex acute or subacute). |
blade oblanceolate to broadly obovate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire. |
Racemes | dense, (exceeding basal leaves). |
dense. |
Flowers | sepals ovate or oblong, (4.5–)5–6(–7) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened, cucullate apically); petals spatulate, 7–9(–11) mm (widened at base, slightly retuse). |
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). |
Fruiting pedicels | (spreading, sharply sigmoid), 8–15 mm. |
(divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, slightly sigmoid to curved), 7–12 mm. |
Fruits | (sessile or substipitate), ovate to oblong, not compressed at distal margins or apex, 5–9 mm; valves sparsely pubescent, trichomes appressed; ovules 4–8 per ovary; style 3–5 mm. |
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. |
Seeds | flattened. |
compressed. |
2n | = 16, ca. 20. |
= 8. |
Physaria calcicola |
Physaria bellii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering Mar–Jun(-Jul). |
Habitat | Shale bluffs, limestone hillsides, gypseous knolls and ravines, calcareous substrates, grasslands and pinyon-juniper communities | Dark shale, road cuts, ridge crests, washes |
Elevation | 1400-2100 m (4600-6900 ft) | 1500-1800 m (4900-5900 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; NM
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CO
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 629. | FNA vol. 7, p. 628. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella calcicola | |
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 322. (2002) | G. A. Mulligan: Canad. J. Bot. 44: 1662, fig. 1, plate 1, fig. 3. (1966) |
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