Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria vicina |
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parasol bladderpod |
good-neighbor bladderpod, Uncompaghre 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; (flowering in the first year); caudex branched, (well-developed); densely pubescent, trichomes (subsessile, appressed to spreading), 3–6-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, usually slightly fused at base, less frequently distinct. |
Stems | several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm. |
few to several from base, ascending (in flower) to nearly prostrate (in fruit), (unbranched), 1–2.5 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
(petiole 1–3.5 cm); blade ovate to rhombic or rotund, 2–7 cm, (base narrowed abruptly to petiole), margins usually entire, occasionally shallowly repand, (flat). |
Cauline leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
blade elliptic or narrowly so, (0.7–)1–2.5 cm, (base narrowed gradually to petiole), margins entire. |
Racemes | dense (distally, subumbellate). |
dense, (elongated in fruit). |
Flowers | sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm. |
sepals (lavender under grayish trichomes), elliptic, 4–6 mm; petals (white, pale yellow basally, often tinged lavender abaxially), narrowly spatulate, 6–10 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade). |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), (4–)6–12 mm, (stout). |
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. |
subglobose to ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm; valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading; ovules 8–12 per ovary; style 4–6 mm. |
Seeds | plump. |
flattened, (faintly margined). |
2n | = 10. |
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Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria vicina |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Rocky high ridges, gravel and stony areas, juniper covered knolls, rock crevices, clay hillsides, pinyon-juniper areas, calcareous substrates | Nearly barren sites, soils derived from Mancos Shale or, less frequently, Jurassic sandstone, pinyon-juniper, sagebrush, Gambel oak |
Elevation | 1600-2700 m (5200-8900 ft) | 1800-2200 m (5900-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; UT; WY
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CO |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 663. | FNA vol. 7, p. 665. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella subumbellata | Lesquerella vicina |
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) | (J. L. Anderson: Novon 12: 328. (2002) |
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