Physaria subumbellata |
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parasol bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple or branched, (usually covered with persistent leaf bases, cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes (closely appressed), rays distinct, usually bifurcate. |
Stems | several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
Cauline leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
Racemes | dense (distally, subumbellate). |
Flowers | sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
Fruits | (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 | plump. |
2n | = 10. |
Physaria subumbellata |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Rocky high ridges, gravel and stony areas, juniper covered knolls, rock crevices, clay hillsides, pinyon-juniper areas, calcareous substrates |
Elevation | 1600-2700 m (5200-8900 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; UT; WY
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 663. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Lesquerella subumbellata |
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) |
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