Physaria parviflora |
Physaria vicina |
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frosty bladderpod, Piceance bladderpod, Picenace bladderpod |
good-neighbor bladderpod, Uncompaghre bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple or branched; densely (silvery) pubescent, trichomes (irregularly radiate), 6–8-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, fused at base. | Perennials; (flowering in the first year); caudex branched, (well-developed); densely pubescent, trichomes (subsessile, appressed to spreading), 3–6-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, usually slightly fused at base, less frequently distinct. |
Stems | several from base, prostrate to decumbent, (usually unbranched, rarely branched distally), 1–3 dm. |
few to several from base, ascending (in flower) to nearly prostrate (in fruit), (unbranched), 1–2.5 dm. |
Basal leaves | (tufted); blade broadly obovate, 1–2 cm, margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex rounded to obtuse). |
(petiole 1–3.5 cm); blade ovate to rhombic or rotund, 2–7 cm, (base narrowed abruptly to petiole), margins usually entire, occasionally shallowly repand, (flat). |
Cauline leaves | blade oblanceolate to nearly oblong, similar to basal, (base cuneate), margins entire. |
blade elliptic or narrowly so, (0.7–)1–2.5 cm, (base narrowed gradually to petiole), margins entire. |
Racemes | (secund), loose, (elongated in fruit). |
dense, (elongated in fruit). |
Flowers | sepals (yellowish), elliptic to lanceolate, (2–)3–4 mm; petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 mm. |
sepals (lavender under grayish trichomes), elliptic, 4–6 mm; petals (white, pale yellow basally, often tinged lavender abaxially), narrowly spatulate, 6–10 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade). |
Fruiting pedicels | (recurved), 6–8(–12) mm. |
(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), (4–)6–12 mm, (stout). |
Fruits | (usually pendent), elliptic to subglobose, usually slightly compressed (latiseptate), 3–4 mm; valves densely pubescent, sometimes with scattered trichomes inside; ovules 4 per ovary; style ca. 3 mm. |
subglobose to ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm; valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading; ovules 8–12 per ovary; style 4–6 mm. |
Seeds | somewhat flattened. |
flattened, (faintly margined). |
Physaria parviflora |
Physaria vicina |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Shale of steep slopes, rock crevices, ledges, canyon sides, shale-marlstone | Nearly barren sites, soils derived from Mancos Shale or, less frequently, Jurassic sandstone, pinyon-juniper, sagebrush, Gambel oak |
Elevation | 2100-2700 m (6900-8900 ft) | 1800-2200 m (5900-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
CO
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CO |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Physaria parviflora is known from the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation, Rio Blanco County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 657. | FNA vol. 7, p. 665. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella parviflora | Lesquerella vicina |
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 326. (2002) | (J. L. Anderson: Novon 12: 328. (2002) |
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