Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria geyeri |
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parasol bladderpod |
Geyer's bladderpod, Geyer's twin-pod |
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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 usually simple, (cespitose); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes (sessile), 6–8-rayed, rays mostly furcate, (tuberculate to nearly smooth). | ||||
Stems | several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm. |
several from base, decumbent, (arising laterally, unbranched), 1–3 dm. |
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Basal leaves | blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
(numerous); (petiole slender, rarely with a few broad teeth); blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire. |
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Cauline leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire. |
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Racemes | dense (distally, subumbellate). |
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, 5–7 mm; petals (yellow to purplish), spatulate, 8–12 mm. |
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Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
(ascending or spreading, slightly curved or sigmoid), 1–2 cm. |
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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. |
obcordate, angustiseptate, somewhat inflated, (not bladdery), 5–7 × 6–9 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent, apical sinus broad and open); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading; replum ovate, 5–7 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute or obtuse; ovules 4–6 per ovary; style 5–7 mm. |
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Seeds | plump. |
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2n | = 10. |
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Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria geyeri |
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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; OR; WA
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (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. 638. | ||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Lesquerella subumbellata | Vesicaria geyeri, Coulterina geyeri, Lesquerella geyeri | ||||
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) | (Hooker) A. Gray: Gen. Amer. Bor. 1: 162. (1848) | ||||
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