Physaria ovalifolia |
Physaria klausii |
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roundleaf bladderpod |
Rogers Pass or klaus' or divide 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; densely pubescent, trichomes (loosely spreading), 3–5-rayed, rays distinct, furcate (with exceptionally long branches). | ||||
Stems | few to several from base, erect or outer decumbent, 0.5–2.5 dm. |
simple from base, erect to decumbent, (slender), 0.6–1.5 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. |
blades obovate to deltate, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins entire or outer one with 1 or 2 broad teeth. |
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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. |
blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.6–1.5 cm, margins entire. |
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Racemes | compact, (± subumbellate to densely corymbiform, elongated or not). |
loose. |
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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 (green-yellow, often tinged with purple), elliptic, 3–4.6 mm; petals oblanceolate, 6–8 mm (claw expanded). |
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Fruiting pedicels | (usually spreading at right angles, sometimes nearly erect, ± straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout). |
(sigmoid), 5–9 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. |
(depressed), broadly obovate, compressed (angustiseptate), 2–4 mm, (apex slightly bilobed to nearly truncate); valves densely pubescent, trichomes strongly ascending, spreading, long, (appearing fuzzy), pubescent inside; ovules 4 per ovary; style 3–4 mm, (pubescent or glabrous). |
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Seeds | flattened. |
flattened. |
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Physaria ovalifolia |
Physaria klausii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul. | |||||
Habitat | Open gravel slides, solifluction cross-stripes of shale rubble, barren shale-derived soil | |||||
Elevation | 1200-1900 m (3900-6200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CO; KS; NE; NM; OK; TX
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MT |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. (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. 647. | ||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Lesquerella ovalifolia, Lesquerella engelmannii subsp. ovalifolia | Lesquerella klausii | ||||
Name authority | (Rydberg) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 326. (2002) | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 325. (2002) | ||||
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