Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria gracilis |
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parasol bladderpod |
spreading 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 or biennials; (delicate, wiry); with a fine taproot; pubescent, trichomes (sessile or subsessile), 4–7-rayed, rays distinct, usually furcate, occasionally bifurcate, (smooth to somewhat tuberculate). | ||||
Stems | several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm. |
simple to several from base, erect, often outer decumbent, (unbranched or branched distally), 1–7 dm. |
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Basal leaves | blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 1.5–8(–11.5) cm, margins lyrate-pinnatifid to dentate or repand, (abaxial surface densely pubescent, adaxial sparsely pubescent). |
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Cauline leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
(proximal petiolate, distal sessile); blade oblanceolate to oblong, 1–7 cm, margins dentate to repand. |
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Racemes | dense (distally, subumbellate). |
loose, (elongated). |
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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 elliptic or broadly ovate, 3–6.5(–8) mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate); petals (yellow to orange), broadly obovate, 6–11 mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw). |
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Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
(usually divaricate-spreading, sometimes horizontal or shallowly recurved, straight or slightly curved), (7–)10–20(–25) mm, (slender or stout). |
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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. |
(stipitate or subsessile, gynophore 1–2 mm), globose, subglobose, obpyriform, or obovoid, not or slightly inflated, 3–9 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout or sparsely pubescent inside; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 8–20(–28) per ovary; style 2–4.5 mm. |
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Seeds | plump. |
slightly flattened. |
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2n | = 10. |
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Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria gracilis |
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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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AL; IA; IL; KS; LA; MO; MS; OK; TN; TX
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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. 641. | ||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Lesquerella subumbellata | Vesicaria gracilis, Alyssum gracile, Lesquerella gracilis | ||||
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) | (Hooker) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 323. (2002) | ||||
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