Physaria kingii subsp. bernardina |
Physaria kingii subsp. kingii |
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San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod |
King's bladderpod |
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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 |
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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 |
CA |
CA; ID; NV; OR |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 646. | FNA vol. 7, p. 646. |
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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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