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Wallowa bladder-pod

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Kaibab bladderpod

Habit Plants usually prostrate and straggling; trichomes (lower layer) smoother, (upper layer) moderately tuberculate, much less so over flat or mounded center. Plants decumbent to ascending; trichomes (no information available).
Basal leaves

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

blade margins entire.

Racemes

not secund, elongated and loose in fruit.

not usually secund, hardly elongated in fruit.

Fruiting pedicels

usually sigmoid.

(divaricate-ascending), straight or slightly 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;

ovules 10–14 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm.

Petals

yellow.

cream-white or white.

2n

= 10.

Physaria kingii subsp. diversifolia

Physaria kingii subsp. kaibabensis

Phenology Flowering May–Aug. Flowering Jun.
Habitat Talus slopes, gravelly flood banks, steep limestone cliffs, rock crevices, marble chiprock, sandy and gravelly soils Limestone-clay knolls, in open, parklike meadows
Elevation 1200-3000 m (3900-9800 ft) 2500-2700 m (8200-8900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
OR
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from FNA
AZ
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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 kaibabensis is found on the Kaibab Plateau.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 646. FNA vol. 7, p. 647.
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. bernardina, P. kingii subsp. cobrensis, P. kingii subsp. diversifolia, 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 kaibabensis, P. kaibabensis
Name authority (Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 325. (2002) (Rollins) O’Kane: Novon 17: 380. (2007)
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