Physaria pinetorum |
Physaria purpurea |
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White Mountain bladderpod |
rose bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple or branched; densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 6–8-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate, less so on outer layers). | Perennials; caudex simple, (usually woody); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), several-rayed, rays simple or furcate, (smooth or tuberculate). |
Stems | simple or few from base, ascending to erect, (0.5–)1–2(–3.5) dm. |
simple from base, erect, (unbranched, sparsely leaved), to 7 dm. |
Basal leaves | (petiole tapering to blade); blade rhombic to elliptic and irregularly angular, sometimes spatulate to oblanceolate, 1.5–7.5(–10) cm, margins entire. |
blade elliptic or obovate to oblong, 4–15 cm, margins entire, dentate, or lyrate-pinnatifid. |
Cauline leaves | (not or loosely overlapping, petiolate or distal sessile); blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 1–4 cm, margins entire. |
(proximal often narrowed to short petiole, distal sessile); blade broadly elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 0.5–3(–5) cm, margins entire. |
Racemes | crowded, elongated. |
dense or slightly elongated. |
Flowers | sepals ovate, oblong, or elliptic 4–7.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals spatulate or broadly cuneate, 6–13 mm, (claw slightly expanded at base). |
sepals elliptic to ovate, 3.5–6(–7) mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals (white, often purple-veined, fading purplish), suborbicular to obovate, obdeltate, or cuneate, 4.5–10(–12) mm, (often narrowed to broad claw, apex emarginate, less frequently claw undifferentiated from blade). |
Fruiting pedicels | (ascending, curved or sigmoid), 6–12(–20) mm. |
(spreading or recurved, loosely sigmoid), 5–25 mm. |
Fruits | (substipitate), globose or obovoid to ellipsoid, sometimes slightly obcompressed, 4–9 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4–24 per ovary; style (2–)4–7 mm. |
(pendent or horizontal, sessile or substipitate), subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, not or slightly inflated, (4–)5–8 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4–8(–12) per ovary; style 1–3(–4) mm. |
Seeds | flattened. |
flattened. |
2n | = 10. |
= 18, 36. |
Physaria pinetorum |
Physaria purpurea |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Mar–Oct. |
Habitat | Scrub oak, pinyon-juniper woodland, open ponderosa pine forests, these sometimes mixed with Douglas fir, white pine, white fir, Engelmann spruce, or Gambel oak, on limestone-derived or otherwise basic soils, often in rock crevices | Rocky draws, canyons, stony hills, ridges, rock crevices on limestone ledges, lava cliffs, sand and gravel of dry stream beds, rocky slopes, talus, shade of bushes or cactus clumps |
Elevation | 1400-2900 (-3400) m (4600-9500 (-11200) ft) | 400-2400 m (1300-7900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora)
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Discussion | Physaria pinetorum with reduced forms are found at high elevations; in disturbed, moist soils plants can become quite large, as in the Manzano Mountains. Densely cespitose plants with crowded racemes not exceeding the basal leaves are found at the crest (3200–3400 m) of the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico. These probably represent an undescribed taxon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 658. | FNA vol. 7, p. 659. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
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Synonyms | Lesquerella pinetorum | Vesicaria purpurea, Lesquerella purpurea, Lesquerella purpurea subsp. foliosa, Lesquerella purpurea var. foliosa, P. purpurea var. foliosa |
Name authority | (Wooton & Standley) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 327. (2002) | (A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 327. (2002) |
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