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Physaria eriocarpa
Grady & O'Kane
Family:
Brassicaceae
Sheep Mountain Bladderpod
FNA
Resources
Steve L. O´Kane Jr. in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials;
caudex branched, (thickened, cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes 5- or 6-rayed, rays slightly fused at base, furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate throughout).
Stems
few from base, well-exserted from basal leaves, 0.4-1(-1.2) dm.
Basal leaves:
blade (erect), obovate to orbicular, 1.5-2.5 cm, (base evidently distinct from petiole), margins entire, (folded).
Cauline leaves:
blade spatulate, margins entire.
Racemes
compact, subumbellate.
Fruiting pedicels
(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), 5-8 mm.
Flowers:
sepals (pale yellow), 4-5 mm; petals lingulate, 6-7 mm.
Fruits
ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (apex not compressed), 3-4 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes erect on mature fruits, (± appearing fuzzy); ovules 8 per ovary; style 4-5 mm, (glabrous).
Seeds
plump.
Flowering Jun-Jul. Windswept ridge lines and mountain peaks in limestone rubble and cobbles; of conservation concern; 2600-3000 m; Mont.
Physaria eriocarpa
is known from Sheep Mountain.
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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