Physaria klausii |
Physaria valida |
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Rogers Pass or klaus' or divide bladderpod |
strong bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple; densely pubescent, trichomes (loosely spreading), 3–5-rayed, rays distinct, furcate (with exceptionally long branches). | Perennials; caudex branched, (thickened); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile), several-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, usually fused toward base, (strongly tuberculate). |
Stems | simple from base, erect to decumbent, (slender), 0.6–1.5 dm. |
several from base, erect or outer decumbent, (unbranched), to 2 dm. |
Basal leaves | blades obovate to deltate, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins entire or outer one with 1 or 2 broad teeth. |
blade elliptic to lanceolate or obovate, 3–8 cm, margins entire. |
Cauline leaves | blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.6–1.5 cm, margins entire. |
(proximal shortly petiolate or sessile, distal sessile); blade elliptic or obovate, to 2 cm, margins entire. |
Racemes | loose. |
dense. |
Flowers | sepals (green-yellow, often tinged with purple), elliptic, 3–4.6 mm; petals oblanceolate, 6–8 mm (claw expanded). |
sepals narrowly elliptic or oblong, 4.5–5.3 mm, (tapering to the somewhat thickened, cucullate apex, lateral pair subsaccate); petals (bright yellow), lingulate or broadly obovate, 7.5–8.5 mm, (narrowing to broad claw, joining in an arch, margins lacerate). |
Fruiting pedicels | (sigmoid), 5–9 mm. |
(divaricate-ascending to horizontal, straight to loosely curved), to 15 mm. |
Fruits | (depressed), broadly obovate, compressed (angustiseptate), 2–4 mm, (apex slightly bilobed to nearly truncate); valves densely pubescent, trichomes strongly ascending, spreading, long, (appearing fuzzy), pubescent inside; ovules 4 per ovary; style 3–4 mm, (pubescent or glabrous). |
(sessile or substipitate), suborbicular to broadly ovate or ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 6–8 mm; valves pubescent; ovules 12–22 per ovary; style 2–3 mm. |
Seeds | flattened. |
flattened. |
2n | = 10. |
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Physaria klausii |
Physaria valida |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul. | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Open gravel slides, solifluction cross-stripes of shale rubble, barren shale-derived soil | Limestone soils, steep slopes, roadcuts, open woods |
Elevation | 1200-1900 m (3900-6200 ft) | 1900-2200 m (6200-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
MT |
NM; TX |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Physaria valida is known from the Sacramento and White mountains of south central New Mexico, and southward through the Guadalupe Mountains to Hudspeth County, Texas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 647. | FNA vol. 7, p. 664. |
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Synonyms | Lesquerella klausii | Lesquerella valida, Lesquerella lepidota |
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 325. (2002) | (Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) |
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