The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links
Photo is of parent taxon

Kaibab bladderpod

Habit Plants decumbent to ascending; trichomes (no information available).
Basal leaves

blade margins entire.

Racemes

not usually secund, hardly elongated in fruit.

Fruiting pedicels

(divaricate-ascending), straight or slightly sigmoid.

Fruits

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

cream-white or white.

Physaria kingii subsp. kaibabensis

Phenology Flowering Jun.
Habitat Limestone-clay knolls, in open, parklike meadows
Elevation 2500-2700 m (8200-8900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

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. 647.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria kingii
Sibling taxa
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 kaibabensis, P. kaibabensis
Name authority (Rollins) O’Kane: Novon 17: 380. (2007)
Web links