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San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod

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King's bladderpod

Habit Plants erect; trichomes tuberculate throughout, less densely so over the center, (rays often fused at base). Plants prostrate and straggling to erect; trichomes tuberculate throughout, center low-mounded.
Basal leaves

blade margins entire.

blade margins ± entire, (sometimes slightly lobed or widened at base).

Racemes

not secund, fairly dense in fruit.

not secund, loose and elongated in fruit, or dense in alpine forms.

Fruiting pedicels

straight (nearly erect), or sigmoid.

usually 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.

slightly wider than long, apex truncate or retuse;

valves pubescent inside;

septum ± perforate;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style to 7(–9) mm.

Petals

yellow.

yellow.

Physaria kingii subsp. bernardina

Physaria kingii subsp. kingii

Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Pine woods Granitic ridges, quartz and limestone chip, stream gravels, dry slopes, calcareous soils, sagebrush hillsides, pinyon-juniper woodlands
Elevation 1800-2200 m (5900-7200 ft) 1700-2200 m (5600-7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA; ID; NV; OR
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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. FNA vol. 7, p. 646.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria kingii 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
P. kingii subsp. bernardina, P. kingii subsp. cobrensis, P. kingii subsp. diversifolia, P. kingii subsp. kaibabensis, 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) unknown
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