Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria angustifolia |
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parasol bladderpod |
threadleaf 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. | Annuals; with a fine taproot; ± densely pubescent, trichomes several-rayed, rays distinct or fused at base, bifurcate, (prominently tuberculate throughout). |
Stems | several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm. |
simple or few to several from base, erect, (sometimes branched), to 4 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
blade elliptic to rhombic, 3–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually to petiole), margins entire, repand, coarsely toothed, or pinnatifid. |
Cauline leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
(proximal often shortly petiolate, distal sessile); blade linear or narrowly obovate, 1.5–6(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly toothed. |
Racemes | dense (distally, subumbellate). |
usually loose. |
Flowers | sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm. |
sepals elliptic or ovate, 4–6 mm, (lateral pair usually subsaccate); petals obovate to obdeltate, 6–10 mm, (apex often emarginate). |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
(usually divaricate, sometimes horizontal, straight or slightly curved), 8–20 mm. |
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. |
not didymous, ± globose, slightly inflated, 4–6 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4 per ovary; style 2–3.5 mm; (stigma expanded). |
Seeds | plump. |
flattened, (margined). |
2n | = 10. |
= 10. |
Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria angustifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Apr(-May). |
Habitat | Rocky high ridges, gravel and stony areas, juniper covered knolls, rock crevices, clay hillsides, pinyon-juniper areas, calcareous substrates | Shallow limestone-derived soils, sometimes spreading to disturbed sites |
Elevation | 1600-2700 m (5200-8900 ft) | 90-300 m (300-1000 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; UT; WY
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OK; TX |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 663. | FNA vol. 7, p. 625. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella subumbellata | Vesicaria angustifolia, Lesquerella angustifolia, Lesquerella longifolia |
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) | (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 321. (2002) |
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