Physaria kingii subsp. diversifolia |
Physaria kingii |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wallowa bladder-pod |
King bladderpod, King's bladder-pod |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Habit | Plants usually prostrate and straggling; trichomes (lower layer) smoother, (upper layer) moderately tuberculate, much less so over flat or mounded center. | Perennials; caudex usually simple, sometimes branched, (not thickened); usually densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 3–7-rayed, rays distinct or slightly fused at base, typically furcate near base, bifurcate or 3-partite, (not to slightly umbonate, smooth or moderately to strongly tuberculate). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, 0.5–2(–4) dm. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basal leaves | blade margins sinuate or lobed, or, sometimes, lyrate. |
blade suborbicular to narrowly or broadly oblanceolate to broadly elliptic or rhombic, (1.2–)2–6(–8) cm, (base usually abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or lobed. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cauline leaves | (proximal petiolate, distal sessile); blade obovate or elliptic to spatulate, 0.5–2 cm, margins entire. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Racemes | not secund, elongated and loose in fruit. |
(usually not secund), dense, (sometimes elongated in fruit). |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Flowers | sepals lanceolate, 4–6(–7) mm; petals (yellow, cream-yellow, cream-white, or white), obovate to oblanceolate, 6–13 mm, (claw weakly differentiated from blade). |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fruiting pedicels | usually sigmoid. |
(erect to divaricate-ascending or recurved, erect in distal 1/3, usually sigmoid, sometimes straight or slightly curved), 4.5–10(–15) mm. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fruits | slightly wider than long, apex truncate or retuse; valves pubescent inside; septum fenestrate; ovules 4–6 per ovary; style to 9 mm. |
(sessile or substipitate), subglobose, obovoid, or ellipsoid, compressed (sometimes slightly angustiseptate), 3–9 mm, (rigid, apex truncate, retuse, or rounded-acute); valves sparsely or densely pubescent, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside; (septum sometimes fenestrate, perforate, or obsolete); ovules 4–16 per ovary; style 1–9 mm. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeds | flattened (sometimes slightly). |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Petals | yellow. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
2n | = 10. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Physaria kingii subsp. diversifolia |
Physaria kingii |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Talus slopes, gravelly flood banks, steep limestone cliffs, rock crevices, marble chiprock, sandy and gravelly soils | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 1200-3000 m (3900-9800 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
OR |
AZ; CA; ID; NV; OR; UT; nw Mexico
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discussion | Subspecies diversifolia is found in the Elkhorn and Wallowa mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 7 (7 in the flora). The Physaria kingii complex is in need of further study. It is widespread in the western United States, mostly in montane environments. This treatment recognizes a highly variable species with generally well-marked, geographically coherent subspecies. Hybridization may be involved in some of the subspecies, especially in subsp. kaibabensis, where molecular data indicate intra-individual genetic variation (pers. obs.). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Key |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 646. | FNA vol. 7, p. 645. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sibling taxa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subordinate taxa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Synonyms | Lesquerella diversifolia, Lesquerella kingii subsp. diversifolia, Lesquerella kingii var. sherwoodii, Lesquerella occidentalis subsp. diversifolia, Lesquerella occidentalis var. diversifolia, Lesquerella sherwoodii, P. kingii var. diversifolia | Vesicaria kingii, Lesquerella kingii | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 325. (2002) | (S. Watson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Web links |
|