Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria garrettii |
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parasol bladderpod |
Garrett's 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 or branched; densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile), 4–7-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (smooth or, rarely, finely tuberculate). |
Stems | several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm. |
simple or several from base, spreading, (unbranched, sparsely pubescent), to 1.5 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, 1–3(–4) cm, margins entire or nearly so. |
Cauline leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
(sessile or shortly petiolate); blade narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 0.4–1.2 cm, margins entire. |
Racemes | dense (distally, subumbellate). |
loose, (few-flowered). |
Flowers | sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm. |
sepals linear, lanceolate, or elliptic, 3.5–6.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals oblanceolate, 5.5–9(–10) mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
(spreading, straight or slightly curved), 4–7 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. |
globose or subglobose, not or slightly compressed, 3.5–4.3 mm; valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, 3–6-rayed, (appearing shaggy); ovules 4–8 per ovary; style 4.5–7 mm. |
Seeds | plump. |
slightly flattened, (suborbicular). |
2n | = 10. |
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Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria garrettii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Rocky high ridges, gravel and stony areas, juniper covered knolls, rock crevices, clay hillsides, pinyon-juniper areas, calcareous substrates | Rock crevices, rocky slopes, ridges |
Elevation | 1600-2700 m (5200-8900 ft) | 3000-3700 m (9800-12100 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; UT; WY
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UT |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Physaria garrettii is known from the area of the Wasatch Mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 663. | FNA vol. 7, p. 638. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella subumbellata | Lesquerella garrettii |
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) | (Payson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 323. (2002) |
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