Physaria pinetorum |
Physaria subumbellata |
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White Mountain bladderpod |
parasol 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 or branched, (usually covered with persistent leaf bases, cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes (closely appressed), rays distinct, usually bifurcate. |
Stems | simple or few from base, ascending to erect, (0.5–)1–2(–3.5) dm. |
several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 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 rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
Cauline leaves | (not or loosely overlapping, petiolate or distal sessile); blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 1–4 cm, margins entire. |
blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
Racemes | crowded, elongated. |
dense (distally, subumbellate). |
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 (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | (ascending, curved or sigmoid), 6–12(–20) mm. |
(divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
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. |
(erect), ovate to suborbicular, compressed apically (latiseptate), 3–4 mm; valves pubescent; replum ovate to obovate; ovules 4–6 per ovary; style 2–3 mm. |
Seeds | flattened. |
plump. |
2n | = 10. |
= 10. |
Physaria pinetorum |
Physaria subumbellata |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
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 high ridges, gravel and stony areas, juniper covered knolls, rock crevices, clay hillsides, pinyon-juniper areas, calcareous substrates |
Elevation | 1400-2900 (-3400) m (4600-9500 (-11200) ft) | 1600-2700 m (5200-8900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM
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CO; UT; WY
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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. 663. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella pinetorum | Lesquerella subumbellata |
Name authority | (Wooton & Standley) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 327. (2002) | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) |
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