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Habit Plants forming soft mats; caudex elongated, elastic (creeping).
Basal leaves

petiole differentiated from blade (sometimes weakly);

blade oblanceolate to obovate.

Fruits

1.7–3 mm wide.

Anthers

1–1.5 mm.

Physaria hitchcockii subsp. confluens

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Gravelly or rocky limestone
Elevation 2300-3500 m (7500-11500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NV
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Discussion

Subspecies confluens is found at or above timberline in the Grant, Quinn Canyon, and Schell Creek ranges.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 643.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria hitchcockii
Sibling taxa
P. hitchcockii subsp. hitchcockii, P. hitchcockii subsp. rubicundula
Synonyms Lesquerella hitchcockii subsp. confluens, Lesquerella confluens
Name authority (Maguire & A. H. Holmgren) O’Kane: Novon 17: 380. (2007)
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