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cobre bladder-pod

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San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod

Habit Plants ± erect or ascending; trichomes tuberculate throughout, center low-mounded. Plants erect; trichomes tuberculate throughout, less densely so over the center, (rays often fused at base).
Basal leaves

blade margins entire.

blade margins entire.

Racemes

secund, usually elongated and loose in fruit.

not secund, fairly dense in fruit.

Fruiting pedicels

curved (recurved) or slightly sigmoid.

straight (nearly erect), or sigmoid.

Fruits

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

valves glabrous inside;

septum ± perforate;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style 3–6 mm.

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.

yellow.

Physaria kingii subsp. cobrensis

Physaria kingii subsp. bernardina

Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Light-colored silt, limestone gravel, rocky areas with low sagebrush Pine woods
Elevation 500-1000 m (1600-3300 ft) 1800-2200 m (5900-7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; NV; OR
[BONAP county map]
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. FNA vol. 7, p. 646.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria kingii Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria kingii
Sibling taxa
P. kingii subsp. bernardina, P. kingii subsp. diversifolia, P. kingii subsp. kaibabensis, P. kingii subsp. kingii, P. kingii subsp. latifolia, P. kingii subsp. utahensis
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 kingii var. cobrensis, P. cobrensis, P. kingii var. cobrensis Lesquerella bernardina, Lesquerella kingii subsp. bernardina, P. kingii var. bernardina
Name authority (Rollins & E. A. Shaw) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002) (Munz) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002)
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