Physaria parvula |
Physaria eriocarpa |
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pygmy bladderpod |
sheep mountain bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex (buried), usually branched, sometimes simple, (cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes (appressed), 4–7-rayed, rays distinct, furcate or bifurcate near base. | Perennials; caudex branched, (thickened, cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes 5- or 6-rayed, rays slightly fused at base, furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate throughout). |
Stems | few to several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.3–1.5(–3) dm. |
few from base, well-exserted from basal leaves, 0.4–1(–1.2) dm. |
Basal leaves | (tufted, erect); blade linear to very narrowly spatulate, 1–3(–4) cm, margins entire (involute). |
blade (erect), obovate to orbicular, 1.5–2.5 cm, (base evidently distinct from petiole), margins entire, (folded). |
Cauline leaves | similar to basal. |
blade spatulate, margins entire. |
Racemes | relatively dense. |
compact, subumbellate. |
Flowers | sepals (greenish yellow), elliptic, 3.5–7 mm; petals spatulate, 5–6 mm, (not clawed). |
sepals (pale yellow), 4–5 mm; petals lingulate, 6–7 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | (ascending, curved or sigmoid), 2–10 mm. |
(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), 5–8 mm. |
Fruits | (erect), ovoid (or longer than broad), usually inflated, 4–5 mm, (apex acute, slightly flattened); valves pubescent, trichomes appressed; ovules 4–8 per ovary; style 2–4 mm. |
ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (apex not compressed), 3–4 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes erect on mature fruits, (± appearing fuzzy); ovules 8 per ovary; style 4–5 mm, (glabrous). |
Seeds | flattened, (mucilaginous). |
plump. |
2n | = 10, 20. |
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Physaria parvula |
Physaria eriocarpa |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Exposed windblown ridges, gravelly hills, open rocky knolls, gravelly hilltops, clay hillsides, granitic sand, reddish soil, sagebrush, mountain scrub, and pinyon-juniper areas | Windswept ridge lines and mountain peaks in limestone rubble and cobbles |
Elevation | 1800-2800 m (5900-9200 ft) | 2600-3000 m (8500-9800 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; UT; WY
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MT |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Physaria eriocarpa is known from Sheep Mountain. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 657. | FNA vol. 7, p. 636. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella parvula, Lesquerella alpina subsp. parvula, Lesquerella alpina var. parvula | |
Name authority | (Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 326. (2002) | Grady & O’Kane: Novon 17: 184, fig. 3. (2007) |
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