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Physaria brassicoides
Rydb.
Family:
Brassicaceae
Double Bladderpod
FNA
Resources
Steve L. O´Kane Jr. in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials;
(somewhat compact); caudex branched, (relatively large); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes (sessile), several-rayed, rays furcate, (slightly umbonate, tuberculate throughout).
Stems
several from base, decumbent to ascending (arising laterally, unbranched, stout), (0.2-)0.5-1.7 dm.
Basal leaves:
(petiole somewhat winged); blades orbicular to obovate, 2-6 cm (width 1-2.5 cm, thick), margins usually repand, rarely entire, (adaxial surface scurfy).
Cauline leaves:
blade oblanceolate to broadly spatulate, 1-2 cm (width 3-5 mm), margins entire, (apex obtuse to subacute).
Racemes
moderately dense (or elongated).
Fruiting pedicels
(divergent, straight to somewhat curved or sigmoid), 5-12 mm.
Flowers:
sepals linear-oblong, 6-8 mm; petals spatulate, 9-12 mm.
Fruits
(erect), didymous, cordate, moderately inflated, (6-)10-20 × 10-23 mm, (papery, base obtuse or with obscure sinus, apical sinus deep, broad); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely and loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading; replum linear-oblong, constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4 per ovary; style 4-5(-9) mm.
Seeds
plump, (broad).
2
n
= 8, 16.
Flowering May-Jun. Bare hillsides, dry gravel and clay soil, badlands, clay knolls, banks; 900-1400 m; Colo., Mont., Nebr., N.Dak., S.Dak., Wyo.
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