Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria carinata |
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parasol bladderpod |
Idaho 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. | Perennials; caudex simple, (often enlarged by persistent leaf bases); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), rays furcate or bifurcate, (nearly smooth to finely tuberculate). | ||||||||
Stems | several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm. |
simple from base, decumbent, (occasionally few-branched), 0.5–1.5(–2) dm. |
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Basal leaves | blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
blade elliptic to broadly obovate, triangular, rhombic, or round, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins often sinuate or shallowly lobed. |
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Cauline leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
(sessile or shortly petiolate); blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm, (base narrowed to petiole), margins entire. |
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Racemes | dense (distally, subumbellate). |
compact to loose. |
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Flowers | sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm. |
sepals oblong to broadly elliptic, 4–7.5 mm, (lateral pair saccate or not); petals spatulate, 7.5–10 mm. |
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Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
(ascending or divaricate-spreading, straight to loosely sigmoid or curved), 4–10 mm. |
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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. |
(sessile or substipitate), elliptic, suborbicular, or oblong, strongly compressed (angustiseptate), 5–9 mm, (rounded to sharply keeled on 1 side, edges ± keeled); valves: (margins covering replum edges or not), usually pubescent throughout or, rarely, glabrous inside; ovules (4–)8–14(–16) per ovary; style 2–4.5(–5) mm. |
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Seeds | plump. |
slightly flattened. |
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2n | = 10. |
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Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria carinata |
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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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ID; MT; WY |
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). Differences in fruit morphology become blurred and the three subspecies are often indistinguishable where their ranges meet near the intersection of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 663. | FNA vol. 7, p. 629. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Lesquerella subumbellata | Lesquerella carinata | ||||||||
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 322. (2002) | ||||||||
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