Physaria ovalifolia |
Physaria cordiformis |
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roundleaf bladderpod |
Wassuk Range bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple or branched, (thickened by persistent leaf bases); densely pubescent (foliage usually scabrous), trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), several-rayed, rays furcate near base, (usually strongly umbonate, roughly tuberculate, less so over umbo). | Perennials; caudex simple or branched; densely pubescent, trichomes (short-stalked), several-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (sometimes slightly umbonate, prominently tuberculate). | ||||
Stems | few to several from base, erect or outer decumbent, 0.5–2.5 dm. |
simple or few from base, prostrate to decumbent (arising laterally from a tuft of leaves, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm. |
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Basal leaves | blade suborbicular to elliptic or ovate or deltate, 0.5–2(–6.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate. |
blade suborbicular, deltate to rhombic, or elliptic, margins entire or sparsely dentate, 2–4(–6) cm. |
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Cauline leaves | (proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile); blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, (0.5–)1–2.5(–4) cm, margins entire. |
(shortly petiolate); blade oblanceolate to linear, 1–2(–3) cm, margins entire. |
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Racemes | compact, (± subumbellate to densely corymbiform, elongated or not). |
loose, (sometimes elongated). |
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Flowers | sepals ± elliptic, 4.5–7(–8.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically); petals (sometimes white), suborbicular to obovate or obdeltate, 6.5–15 mm, (base narrowing to broad claw, apex sometimes emarginated). |
sepals lanceolate, 3.5–6(–8) mm; petals obovate to oblanceolate, (5–)7–8.5(–10) mm. |
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Fruiting pedicels | (usually spreading at right angles, sometimes nearly erect, ± straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout). |
(sigmoid), 5–10 mm. |
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Fruits | (sessile or shortly stipitate, less than 1 mm), subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, inflated or slightly compressed (terete or subterete), (4–)5–8(–9) mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 8–16 per ovary; style 4–8(–9) mm. |
obcordate to truncate or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate, inflated at lobe tips), 3–6mm (wider than long); valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or slightly spreading; (septum usually fenestrate); ovules 4–8 per ovary; style (slender), 3–6.5 mm, (often pubescent). |
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Seeds | flattened. |
flattened. |
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2n | = 10. |
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Physaria ovalifolia |
Physaria cordiformis |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | |||||
Habitat | Dry sandy or gravelly soils, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, and juniper communities, steep hillsides, rocky ridges, talus, whitish clay hills | |||||
Elevation | 1500-2700 m (4900-8900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CO; KS; NE; NM; OK; TX
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CA; ID; NV; UT |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 655. | FNA vol. 7, p. 632. | ||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Lesquerella ovalifolia, Lesquerella engelmannii subsp. ovalifolia | Lesquerella cordiformis, Lesquerella kingii var. cordiformis, Lesquerella kingii var. nevadensis | ||||
Name authority | (Rydberg) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 326. (2002) | Rollins: Contr. Gray Herb. 171: 47. (1950) | ||||
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