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Wallowa bladder-pod

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San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod

Habit Plants usually prostrate and straggling; trichomes (lower layer) smoother, (upper layer) moderately tuberculate, much less so over flat or mounded center. Plants erect; trichomes tuberculate throughout, less densely so over the center, (rays often fused at base).
Basal leaves

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

blade margins entire.

Racemes

not secund, elongated and loose in fruit.

not secund, fairly dense in fruit.

Fruiting pedicels

usually sigmoid.

straight (nearly erect), or sigmoid.

Fruits

slightly wider than long, apex truncate or retuse;

valves pubescent inside;

septum fenestrate;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style to 9 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.

2n

= 10.

Physaria kingii subsp. diversifolia

Physaria kingii subsp. bernardina

Phenology Flowering May–Aug. Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Talus slopes, gravelly flood banks, steep limestone cliffs, rock crevices, marble chiprock, sandy and gravelly soils Pine woods
Elevation 1200-3000 m (3900-9800 ft) 1800-2200 m (5900-7200 ft)
Distribution
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OR
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CA
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Discussion

Subspecies diversifolia is found in the Elkhorn and Wallowa mountains.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

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. cobrensis, 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 diversifolia, Lesquerella kingii subsp. diversifolia, Lesquerella kingii var. sherwoodii, Lesquerella occidentalis subsp. diversifolia, Lesquerella occidentalis var. diversifolia, Lesquerella sherwoodii, P. kingii var. diversifolia Lesquerella bernardina, Lesquerella kingii subsp. bernardina, P. kingii var. bernardina
Name authority (Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 325. (2002) (Munz) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002)
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