Physaria parvula |
Physaria reediana |
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pygmy bladderpod |
alpine bladderpod, reed's twinpod, Rollins' 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 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, (unbranched, slender), 0.3–1.5(–3) dm. |
few to several from base, ± erect, (arising laterally, also from within basal leaves), 0.2–0.4 dm. |
Basal leaves | (tufted, erect); blade linear to very narrowly spatulate, 1–3(–4) cm, margins entire (involute). |
(erect); blade linear-oblanceolate, 1.2–2.8 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire. |
Cauline leaves | similar to basal. |
blade linear, similar to basal. |
Racemes | relatively dense. |
dense, (often subumbellate, not or barely exceeding basal leaves). |
Flowers | sepals (greenish yellow), elliptic, 3.5–7 mm; petals spatulate, 5–6 mm, (not clawed). |
sepals (pale green-yellow), oblong to elliptic, 4–5 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate, 6–9 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | (ascending, curved or sigmoid), 2–10 mm. |
(ascending, curved), 3–5.5 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. |
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). |
Seeds | flattened, (mucilaginous). |
plump, (oblong). |
2n | = 10, 20. |
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Physaria parvula |
Physaria reediana |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering May–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 | Open areas of grasslands on calcareous soils |
Elevation | 1800-2800 m (5900-9200 ft) | 1200-1900 m (3900-6200 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; UT; WY
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CO; NE; WY
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 657. | FNA vol. 7, p. 660. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
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Synonyms | Lesquerella parvula, Lesquerella alpina subsp. parvula, Lesquerella alpina var. parvula | Vesicaria alpina, Alyssum alpinum, Lesquerella alpina, Lesquerella alpina var. laevis, Lesquerella condensata var. laevis |
Name authority | (Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 326. (2002) | O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 327. (2002) |
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