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Physaria carinata subsp. pulchella

Physaria carinata
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beautiful bladderpod

Idaho bladderpod
Habit Perennials; caudex simple, (often enlarged by persistent leaf bases); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), rays furcate or bifurcate, (nearly smooth to finely tuberculate).
Stems

simple from base, decumbent, (occasionally few-branched), 0.5–1.5(–2) dm.
Basal leaves

blade elliptic to broadly obovate, triangular, rhombic, or round, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins often sinuate or shallowly lobed.
Cauline leaves

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm, (base narrowed to petiole), margins entire.
Racemes

compact to loose.
Flowers

sepals oblong to broadly elliptic, 4–7.5 mm, (lateral pair saccate or not);

petals spatulate, 7.5–10 mm.
Fruiting pedicels

(ascending or divaricate-spreading, straight to loosely sigmoid or curved), 4–10 mm.
Fruits

suborbicular to elliptic or broadly oblong, keeled on one side;

valves: margins covering replum edges, (base and apex rounded), glabrous inside.

(sessile or substipitate), elliptic, suborbicular, or oblong, strongly compressed (angustiseptate), 5–9 mm, (rounded to sharply keeled on 1 side, edges ± keeled);

valves: (margins covering replum edges or not), usually pubescent throughout or, rarely, glabrous inside;

ovules (4–)8–14(–16) per ovary;

style 2–4.5(–5) mm.
Seeds

slightly flattened.

Physaria carinata subsp. pulchella

Physaria carinata
Phenology Flowering late Jul-early Aug.
Habitat Grass-forb communities on slopes, sagebrush, mountain shrub, limber pine communities, limestone gravel or cobbles
Elevation 2100-2300 m (6900-7500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; MT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
ID; MT; WY
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora).

Differences in fruit morphology become blurred and the three subspecies are often indistinguishable where their ranges meet near the intersection of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Fruits elliptic, not keeled, valve margins (thin, rounded), not covering replum edges.
subsp. paysonii
1. Fruits elliptic, suborbicular, or broadly oblong, keeled on one side, valve margins covering replum edges
→ 2
2. Fruits elliptic, bases narrow-rounded to acute, apices ± acute.
subsp. carinata
2. Fruits suborbicular to elliptic or broadly oblong, bases and apices rounded.
subsp. pulchella
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 631. FNA vol. 7, p. 629.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria carinata Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria
Sibling taxa
P. carinata subsp. carinata, P. carinata subsp. paysonii
P. acutifolia, P. alpestris, P. alpina, P. angustifolia, P. arctica, P. arenosa, P. argyraea, P. arizonica, P. aurea, P. bellii, P. brassicoides, P. calcicola, P. calderi, 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
Subordinate taxa
P. carinata subsp. carinata, P. carinata subsp. paysonii, P. carinata subsp. pulchella
Synonyms Lesquerella pulchella, P. pulchella Lesquerella carinata
Name authority (Rollins) O’Kane: Novon 17: 379. (2007) (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 322. (2002)
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