Physaria purpurea |
Physaria hemiphysaria |
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rose bladderpod |
intermountain bladderpod, skyline bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple, (usually woody); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), several-rayed, rays simple or furcate, (smooth or tuberculate). | Perennials; caudex simple or branched (tightly); sparsely to densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 4–6-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, distinct or slightly fused at base, (sometimes umbonate, tuberculate throughout). | ||||
Stems | simple from base, erect, (unbranched, sparsely leaved), to 7 dm. |
few to several from base, decumbent, 0.5–1(–2) dm, (rather stout, sparsely pubescent). |
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Basal leaves | blade elliptic or obovate to oblong, 4–15 cm, margins entire, dentate, or lyrate-pinnatifid. |
blade elliptic to suborbicular, 1.5–3.5(–5.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate (at base, surfaces densely pubescent, silvery). |
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Cauline leaves | (proximal often narrowed to short petiole, distal sessile); blade broadly elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 0.5–3(–5) cm, margins entire. |
(petiolate or distal nearly sessile); blade elliptic to obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire. |
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Racemes | dense or slightly elongated. |
dense, congested, (few-flowered). |
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Flowers | 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). |
sepals lanceolate, oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 3.8–5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals narrowly lanceolate to linear, 6–10(–13) mm. |
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Fruiting pedicels | (spreading or recurved, loosely sigmoid), 5–25 mm. |
(spreading or recurved, sometimes loosely sigmoid), 2–6.5 mm. |
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Fruits | (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. |
(sessile or substipitate), broadly obcordate, obdeltate, or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate), 3–5(–7) mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), sparsely pubescent or glabrous, trichomes appressed; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 8–16 per ovary; style (1.8–)3–6(–7) mm. |
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Seeds | flattened. |
slightly flattened, (ellipsoid to suborbicular). |
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2n | = 18, 36. |
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Physaria purpurea |
Physaria hemiphysaria |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Oct. | |||||
Habitat | 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 | 400-2400 m (1300-7900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora)
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 659. | FNA vol. 7, p. 642. | ||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Vesicaria purpurea, Lesquerella purpurea, Lesquerella purpurea subsp. foliosa, Lesquerella purpurea var. foliosa, P. purpurea var. foliosa | Lesquerella hemiphysaria | ||||
Name authority | (A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 327. (2002) | (Maguire) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 323. (2002) | ||||
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