Physaria eburniflora |
Physaria alpestris |
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Devils Gate twinpod |
alpine twin-pod, Washington bladder-pod, Washington twin-pod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex usually simple; densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile), rays often furcate, fused toward base, (nearly smooth). | Perennials; caudex usually simple, rarely branched, (cespitose); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes several-rayed, rays (1- or) 2-bifurcate, (low-umbonate, tubercles relatively few, small). |
Stems | simple from base, prostrate, (arising lateral to rosette), 0.1–0.5 dm. |
several from base, decumbent to ascending, (unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade suborbicular, (1–)2.5(–3) cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (flat), (surfaces densely silvery pubescent, trichomes in multiple layers, appressed). |
(petiole slender); blade obovate, 3–5 cm (width 10–20 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex rarely slightly acute). |
Cauline leaves | (2–4); blade oblanceolate, ca. 1 cm, (base cuneate), margins entire, (apex acute). |
blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire. |
Racemes | condensed. |
subcorymbose. |
Flowers | sepals (erect, purplish to greenish), linear-oblong or boat-shaped, 5.5–6.5 mm, (lateral pair more saccate than median); petals (white), spatulate, 9–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade). |
sepals oblong, 8–10 mm; petals spatulate, 12–14 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending, nearly straight), 6–10 mm. |
(divaricate, straight), 5–10 mm. |
Fruits | strongly didymous, irregular in shape and size, (base slightly cordate, apex with a deep closed sinus), strongly to somewhat inflated, 6–8 × 6–8 mm (± bladderlike, papery); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent; replum elliptic to obovate, not constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse; ovules 4–8 per ovary; style 4–5 mm, (sparsely pubescent or glabrous). |
didymous, mostly highly inflated (strongly flattened at least in 1/2 toward replum), 14–18 × 14–18 mm, (papery, basal sinus slightly notched, apical open, shallow); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly pubescent; replum lanceolate, 7–10 mm, width 1.5–2.5 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to acuminate; ovules 8–10 per ovary; style 5–7 mm. |
Seeds | plump. |
flattened, (2–3 mm). |
2n | = 48–52, 52, 64, 67–70. |
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Physaria eburniflora |
Physaria alpestris |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Limestone hills, red soil, rocky calcareous slopes, clay depressions, granite and marble detritus | Alpine scree, rocky ridges, talus slopes, volcanic sands and gravel, serpentine gravel, granitic slopes, mountain shrub, subalpine fir, and whitebark pine communities |
Elevation | 1800-3000 m (5900-9800 ft) | (700-)1300-2400 m ((2300-)4300-7900 ft) |
Distribution |
WY |
WA
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 635. | FNA vol. 7, p. 624. |
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Synonyms | Lesquerella alpestris | |
Name authority | Rollins: Brittonia 33: 333. (1981) | Suksdorf: W. Amer. Sci. 15: 58. (1906) |
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