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Physaria kingii subsp. kingii

Physaria kingii subsp. kaibabensis
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King's bladderpod
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Kaibab bladderpod
Habit Plants prostrate and straggling to erect; trichomes tuberculate throughout, center low-mounded. Plants decumbent to ascending; trichomes (no information available).
Basal leaves

blade margins ± entire, (sometimes slightly lobed or widened at base).

blade margins entire.
Racemes

not secund, loose and elongated in fruit, or dense in alpine forms.

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 ± perforate;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style to 7(–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.

Physaria kingii subsp. kingii

Physaria kingii subsp. kaibabensis
Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering Jun.
Habitat Granitic ridges, quartz and limestone chip, stream gravels, dry slopes, calcareous soils, sagebrush hillsides, pinyon-juniper woodlands Limestone-clay knolls, in open, parklike meadows
Elevation 1700-2200 m (5600-7200 ft) 2500-2700 m (8200-8900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; NV; OR
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from FNA
AZ
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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. 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. diversifolia, P. kingii subsp. kaibabensis, 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 kaibabensis, P. kaibabensis
Name authority unknown (Rollins) O’Kane: Novon 17: 380. (2007)
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