Physaria rectipes |
Physaria purpurea |
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straight bladderpod |
rose bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; (loose, spreading); caudex simple or branched; densely pubescent, trichomes (subsessile), 4–6-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (moderately tuberculate over arms, less so or smooth over center). | Perennials; caudex simple, (usually woody); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), several-rayed, rays simple or furcate, (smooth or tuberculate). |
Stems | few to several from base, ascending or prostrate, (arising laterally, also from within basal leaves, usually unbranched, rarely branched), 0.5–3(–6) dm. |
simple from base, erect, (unbranched, sparsely leaved), to 7 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade narrowly oblanceolate or broadly elliptic, 1–7(–12) cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed, sometimes repand, (inner blades usually flattened in age, surfaces often gray-green, scabrous). |
blade elliptic or obovate to oblong, 4–15 cm, margins entire, dentate, or lyrate-pinnatifid. |
Cauline leaves | (usually secund); blade spatulate or obovate, 1–2.5(–4.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed, (flat or involute). |
(proximal often narrowed to short petiole, distal sessile); blade broadly elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 0.5–3(–5) cm, margins entire. |
Racemes | somewhat crowded (to moderately elongated in fruit, exceeding basal leaves). |
dense or slightly elongated. |
Flowers | sepals broadly elliptic or oblong, 4–7.5(–9) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals cuneate or obovate, 7–10(–16) mm, (tapering gradually to broad claw). |
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 | (often divaricate-spreading and straight, or horizontal and loosely sigmoid, sometimes slightly recurved), 5–15 mm. |
(spreading or recurved, loosely sigmoid), 5–25 mm. |
Fruits | subglobose to ovoid or ellipsoid, sometimes compressed, (4–)5–7(–9) mm; valves sparsely pubescent, trichomes appressed or erect, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside; ovules (8–)12–16(–20) per ovary; style 2–7 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 | somewhat flattened. |
flattened. |
2n | = 10 + 2, 18, 20, ± 40. |
= 18, 36. |
Physaria rectipes |
Physaria purpurea |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Mar–Oct. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, limey knolls, rocky hills, clay hillsides, dry ridges, weathered rocks, gravelly outwashes, stony slopes, pinyon-juniper woodlands | 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 | 1500-2600 m (4900-8500 ft) | 400-2400 m (1300-7900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; UT
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora)
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Discussion | As here circumscribed, Physaria rectipes remains heterogeneous and may represent more than one taxon, even after the recent removal of P. pulvinata. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 660. | FNA vol. 7, p. 659. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
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Synonyms | Lesquerella rectipes | 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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