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Idaho twinpod, salmon twinpod

Basal leaves

blade margins ± lyrate or, rarely, entire.

Trichomes

appressed throughout.

Fruits

highly inflated, (papery);

ovules 8 per ovary.

2n

= 24.

Physaria didymocarpa subsp. lyrata

Phenology Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Gravel, alluvial fans, steep banks
Elevation 1300-2100 m (4300-6900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies lyrata is found only in the Salmon River drainage.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 634.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria didymocarpa
Sibling taxa
P. didymocarpa subsp. didymocarpa, P. didymocarpa subsp. lanata
Synonyms P. didymocarpa var. lyrata
Name authority (C. L. Hitchcock) O’Kane: Novon 17: 379. (2007)
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