Physaria calcicola |
Physaria brassicoides |
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Rocky Mountain bladderpod |
double bladderpod, double 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; (somewhat compact); caudex branched, (relatively large); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes (sessile), several-rayed, rays furcate, (slightly umbonate, tuberculate throughout). |
Stems | several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent, (unbranched, stout, usually sparsely leaved), 1–3 dm. |
several from base, decumbent to ascending (arising laterally, unbranched, stout), (0.2–)0.5–1.7 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade linear, 2–7(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate. |
(petiole somewhat winged); blades orbicular to obovate, 2–6 cm (width 1–2.5 cm, thick), margins usually repand, rarely entire, (adaxial surface scurfy). |
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 spatulate, 1–2 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire, (apex obtuse to subacute). |
Racemes | dense, (exceeding basal leaves). |
moderately dense (or elongated). |
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 linear-oblong, 6–8 mm; petals spatulate, 9–12 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | (spreading, sharply sigmoid), 8–15 mm. |
(divergent, straight to somewhat curved or sigmoid), 5–12 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. |
(erect), didymous, cordate, moderately inflated, (6–)10–20 × 10–23 mm, (papery, base obtuse or with obscure sinus, apical sinus deep, broad); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely and loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading; replum linear-oblong, constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4 per ovary; style 4–5(–9) mm. |
Seeds | flattened. |
plump, (broad). |
2n | = 16, ca. 20. |
= 8, 16. |
Physaria calcicola |
Physaria brassicoides |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Shale bluffs, limestone hillsides, gypseous knolls and ravines, calcareous substrates, grasslands and pinyon-juniper communities | Bare hillsides, dry gravel and clay soil, badlands, clay knolls, banks |
Elevation | 1400-2100 m (4600-6900 ft) | 900-1400 m (3000-4600 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; NM
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CO; MT; ND; NE; SD; WY
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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) | Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29: 237. (1902) |
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