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cobre bladder-pod

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Wallowa bladder-pod

Habit Plants ± erect or ascending; trichomes tuberculate throughout, center low-mounded. Plants usually prostrate and straggling; trichomes (lower layer) smoother, (upper layer) moderately tuberculate, much less so over flat or mounded center.
Basal leaves

blade margins entire.

blade margins sinuate or lobed, or, sometimes, lyrate.

Racemes

secund, usually elongated and loose in fruit.

not secund, elongated and loose in fruit.

Fruiting pedicels

curved (recurved) or slightly sigmoid.

usually 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.

slightly wider than long, apex truncate or retuse;

valves pubescent inside;

septum fenestrate;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style to 9 mm.

Petals

yellow.

yellow.

2n

= 10.

Physaria kingii subsp. cobrensis

Physaria kingii subsp. diversifolia

Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Light-colored silt, limestone gravel, rocky areas with low sagebrush Talus slopes, gravelly flood banks, steep limestone cliffs, rock crevices, marble chiprock, sandy and gravelly soils
Elevation 500-1000 m (1600-3300 ft) 1200-3000 m (3900-9800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; NV; OR
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
OR
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Subspecies diversifolia is found in the Elkhorn and Wallowa 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. bernardina, P. kingii subsp. cobrensis, 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 diversifolia, Lesquerella kingii subsp. diversifolia, Lesquerella kingii var. sherwoodii, Lesquerella occidentalis subsp. diversifolia, Lesquerella occidentalis var. diversifolia, Lesquerella sherwoodii, P. kingii var. diversifolia
Name authority (Rollins & E. A. Shaw) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002) (Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 325. (2002)
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