Physaria fendleri |
Physaria eburniflora |
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Fendler bladderpod, Fendler's bladderpod |
Devils Gate twinpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex branched, (sometimes woody at base); densely (silvery) pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), several-rayed, rays not furcate, fused (webbed) ca. 1/2 their length, (tuberculate throughout or tubercles scarce or absent over center). | Perennials; caudex usually simple; densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile), rays often furcate, fused toward base, (nearly smooth). |
Stems | several from base, erect or laterally decumbent, (usually unbranched), (0.3–)0.5–2.5(–4) dm. |
simple from base, prostrate, (arising lateral to rosette), 0.1–0.5 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade linear to somewhat elliptic, 1–4(–8) cm, margins entire or coarsely dentate. |
blade suborbicular, (1–)2.5(–3) cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (flat), (surfaces densely silvery pubescent, trichomes in multiple layers, appressed). |
Cauline leaves | (shortly petiolate); blade usually linear to narrowly oblanceolate, rarely elliptic to rhombic, 0.5–2.5 cm, (base narrowing to petiole), margins entire or remotely dentate (sometimes involute). |
(2–4); blade oblanceolate, ca. 1 cm, (base cuneate), margins entire, (apex acute). |
Racemes | loose to somewhat dense. |
condensed. |
Flowers | sepals elliptic to oblong, 5–8 mm, (lateral pair not saccate, median pair often thickened apically, ± cucullate); petals (usually orange or orange-yellow at junction of blade and claw, sometimes also with orange guidelines), obdeltate to obovate, 8–12 mm, (claw relatively short). |
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). |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-spreading to erect, usually straight or slightly curved, occasionally sigmoid), 8–20(–40) mm. |
(divaricate-ascending, nearly straight), 6–10 mm. |
Fruits | globose, broadly ellipsoid, or ovoid, not or slightly inflated, 5–8 mm, (firm, apex usually acute); valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence, often reddish in age), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules (12–)20–32(–40) per ovary; style (2–)3–6 mm. |
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). |
Seeds | flattened. |
plump. |
2n | = 12, 14, 24. |
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Physaria fendleri |
Physaria eburniflora |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Limestone outcrops, gypseous hills, gravels, sandy washes, rocky slopes, bluffs, shallow drainage areas, plains and desert shrub areas | Limestone hills, red soil, rocky calcareous slopes, clay depressions, granite and marble detritus |
Elevation | 100-2000 m (300-6600 ft) | 1800-3000 m (5900-9800 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; KS; NM; OK; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León)
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WY |
Discussion | In dry areas, Physaria fendleri may flower following suitable rains at any time of the year. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 636. | FNA vol. 7, p. 635. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
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Synonyms | Vesicaria fendleri, Alyssum fendleri, Alyssum stenophyllum, Lesquerella fendleri, Lesquerella foliacea, Lesquerella praecox, Lesquerella stenophylla, Vesicaria stenophylla, Vesicaria stenophylla var. diffusa, Vesicaria stenophylla var. humilis, Vesicaria stenophylla var. procera | |
Name authority | (A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 323. (2002) | Rollins: Brittonia 33: 333. (1981) |
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