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Physaria congesta

Dudley bluffs bladderpod
Habit Perennials; (relatively diminutive, strongly condensed); caudex (buried), simple or branched, (stout, thatched, thickened with persistent leaf bases); densely pubescent, trichomes (appressed, stiff), 4- or 5-rayed, rays fused at center, (mostly bifurcate).
Stems

simple or few from base, decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally from a tight hemispherical tuft of leaves), to 0.15 dm.
Basal leaves

similar to cauline, (erect, surfaces silvery).
Cauline leaves

(ascending, subsessile);

blade linear-oblanceolate, (0.6–)0.8–1.3(–1.5) cm, margins entire, (apex acute to narrowly obtuse).
Racemes

strongly congested, (often sessile or nearly so, lateral to leaves).
Flowers

sepals (loosely erect), narrowly oblong, 3–4 mm;

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm.
Fruiting pedicels

(erect or ascending, straight to slightly curved), 3–6 mm.
Fruits

ovate, compressed (latiseptate) on margins and apically, 4–5 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes densely appressed;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 1–1.5 mm.
Seeds

plump.

Physaria congesta
Phenology Flowering Apr–May.
Habitat Barren knolls with pinyon-juniper
Elevation 1800-2100 m (5900-6900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Physaria congesta is found on white, decomposed shale of the Thirteenmile Creek Tongue of the Green River Formation.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 632.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria
Sibling taxa
P. acutifolia, P. alpestris, P. alpina, P. angustifolia, P. arctica, P. arenosa, P. argyraea, P. arizonica, P. aurea, P. bellii, P. brassicoides, P. calcicola, P. calderi, P. carinata, P. chambersii, P. cinerea, P. condensata, P. cordiformis, P. curvipes, P. densiflora, P. didymocarpa, P. dornii, P. douglasii, P. eburniflora, P. engelmannii, P. eriocarpa, P. fendleri, P. filiformis, P. floribunda, P. fremontii, P. garrettii, P. geyeri, P. globosa, P. gooddingii, P. gordonii, P. gracilis, P. grahamii, P. hemiphysaria, P. hitchcockii, P. humilis, P. integrifolia, P. intermedia, P. kingii, P. klausii, P. lata, P. lepidota, P. lesicii, P. lindheimeri, P. ludoviciana, P. macrocarpa, P. mcvaughiana, P. montana, P. multiceps, P. navajoensis, P. nelsonii, P. newberryi, P. obcordata, P. obdeltata, P. occidentalis, P. oregona, P. ovalifolia, P. pachyphylla, P. pallida, P. parviflora, P. parvula, P. pendula, P. pinetorum, P. prostrata, P. pruinosa, P. pulvinata, P. purpurea, P. pycnantha, P. rectipes, P. recurvata, P. reediana, P. rollinsii, P. saximontana, P. scrotiformis, P. sessilis, P. spatulata, P. subumbellata, P. tenella, P. thamnophila, P. tumulosa, P. valida, P. vicina, P. vitulifera
Synonyms Lesquerella congesta
Name authority (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 322. (2002)
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