Physaria ovalifolia |
Physaria reediana |
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roundleaf bladderpod |
alpine bladderpod, reed's twinpod, Rollins' 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, (covered with persistent leaf bases, loosely cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes (appressed to ascending, plant appearing shaggy, always appressed on fruits), 4- or 5-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate throughout). | ||||
Stems | few to several from base, erect or outer decumbent, 0.5–2.5 dm. |
few to several from base, ± erect, (arising laterally, also from within basal leaves), 0.2–0.4 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. |
(erect); blade linear-oblanceolate, 1.2–2.8 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire. |
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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 linear, similar to basal. |
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Racemes | compact, (± subumbellate to densely corymbiform, elongated or not). |
dense, (often subumbellate, not or barely exceeding basal leaves). |
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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 (pale green-yellow), oblong to elliptic, 4–5 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate, 6–9 mm. |
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Fruiting pedicels | (usually spreading at right angles, sometimes nearly erect, ± straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout). |
(ascending, curved), 3–5.5 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. |
lanceolate in outline, compressed (latiseptate) on margins and at apex, 4–5 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes closely appressed; ovules 8–12 per ovary; style 3.5–4.5 mm (equaling or exceeding length of fruit, curved proximal to stigma). |
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Seeds | flattened. |
plump, (oblong). |
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Physaria ovalifolia |
Physaria reediana |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | |||||
Habitat | Open areas of grasslands on calcareous soils | |||||
Elevation | 1200-1900 m (3900-6200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CO; KS; NE; NM; OK; TX
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CO; NE; WY
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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. 660. | ||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Lesquerella ovalifolia, Lesquerella engelmannii subsp. ovalifolia | Vesicaria alpina, Alyssum alpinum, Lesquerella alpina, Lesquerella alpina var. laevis, Lesquerella condensata var. laevis | ||||
Name authority | (Rydberg) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 326. (2002) | O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 327. (2002) | ||||
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