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white bluffs bladderpod

Habit Annuals, biennials, perennials, or subshrubs; eglandular.
Cauline leaves

imbricate, blade sometimes orbicular.

petiolate, sessile, or subsessile;

blade base usually not auriculate (except Paysonia), margins entire, dentate, or sinuate.

Trichomes

usually short-stalked, subsessile, or sessile, sometimes long-stalked, stellate, scalelike, subdendritic, or forked, sometimes mixed with simple ones.

Racemes

ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

Flowers

actinomorphic;

sepals erect, spreading, ascending, or reflexed, lateral pair seldom saccate basally;

petals white, yellow, lavender, purple, violet, orange, or brown [pink], claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen (3 or) 4–11-colpate.

Fruit(s)

valves: trichomes stalked.

silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, terete, latiseptate, or angustiseptate;

ovules 2–100 per ovary;

style usually distinct;

stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed.

Seeds

biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

Physaria douglasii subsp. tuplashensis

Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae

Phenology Flowering May–Jun(-Aug).
Habitat Caliche soil with sagebrush
Elevation 300 m (1000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
WA
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North America; Mexico; South America; Asia (ne Russia)
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

It is possible that subsp. tuplashensis is simply an ecotype, or that its phenotype is in response to its severe habitat on the White Bluffs of the Columbia River.

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

Genera 7, species ca. 130 (7 genera, 105 species in the flora).

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 635. FNA vol. 7, p. 604.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria douglasii Brassicaceae
Sibling taxa
P. douglasii subsp. douglasii
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms Lesquerella tuplashensis
Name authority (Rollins: Novon 12: 322. (2002) B. L. Robinson: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(1,1): 100. (1895)
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