Flora of North America species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Physaria kingii subsp. bernardina
Photo is of parent taxon

San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod
Habit Plants erect; trichomes tuberculate throughout, less densely so over the center, (rays often fused at base).
Basal leaves

blade margins entire.
Racemes

not secund, fairly dense in fruit.
Fruiting pedicels

straight (nearly erect), or sigmoid.
Fruits

as wide as or longer than wide, apex rounded-acute;

valves glabrous inside;

septum complete or 1/3–1/2 perforate;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 6–9 mm.
Petals

yellow.

Physaria kingii subsp. bernardina
Phenology Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Pine woods
Elevation 1800-2200 m (5900-7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies bernardina is found near Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 646.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria kingii
Sibling taxa
P. kingii subsp. cobrensis, P. kingii subsp. diversifolia, P. kingii subsp. kaibabensis, P. kingii subsp. kingii, P. kingii subsp. latifolia, P. kingii subsp. utahensis
Synonyms Lesquerella bernardina, Lesquerella kingii subsp. bernardina, P. kingii var. bernardina
Name authority (Munz) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002)
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the online version of the Flora of North America, who have made most of their content available via a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in Flora of North America yet, or it's listed under a synonym. And please note that Flora of North America is still missing several plant families, including Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, and Polemoniaceae.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers