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Physaria spatulata
(Rydb.) Grady & O'Kane
No occurrences found
Family:
Brassicaceae
alpine bladderpod
[
Lesquerella alpina var. spatulata
(Rydb.) Payson,
more
Lesquerella spatulata
Rydb.,
Physaria reediana subsp. spatulata
(Rydb.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
]
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Resources
Steve L. O´Kane Jr. in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials;
caudex simple, (relatively small); sparsely to moderately pubescent, trichomes 4- or 5-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, not fused, (tuberculate).
Stems
simple from base, erect to decumbent, (well-exserted beyond basal leaves, loosely spreading), 0.3-1.2 dm.
Basal leaves
(erect to prostrate, petiole distinct from blade); blade (inner) spatulate to oblanceolate, or (outer) oblanceolate or orbicular, 1.5-4 cm, margins entire (rarely folded).
Cauline leaves:
blade spatulate, distinctly different from basal.
Racemes
moderately dense, (6-20- flowered).
Fruiting pedicels
(strongly sigmoid), 10-20 mm (2 times longer than fruits).
Flowers:
sepals (pale yellow), elliptic, 3.5-5 mm; petals lingulate, 6-9 mm.
Fruits
lanceolate or orbicular, slightly inflated, (2.5-) 3-6 mm, (apex usually strongly narrowed); valves pubescent, trichomes sparse and closely appressed to surface; ovules 4-8 per ovary; style 2.5-6 mm (usually ± equal in length to mature fruit).
Seeds
plump. Flowering May-early Jul. Grasslands, subalpine meadows, sagebrush, scattered pines, fellfields, calcareous (sometimes alkaline) substrates; 900-2900 m; Alta., Sask.; Mont., Nebr., N.Dak., S.Dak., Wyo.
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