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Physaria sessilis

Physaria sessilis (S. Watson) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz  
Family: Brassicaceae
Sessile Bladderpod
[Lesquerella gordonii var. sessilis S. Watson, moreLesquerella gracilis var. sessilis S.Watson, Lesquerella sessilis (S. Watson) Small]
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Steve L. O´Kane Jr. in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Annuals or biennials; with a fine taproot; densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 4-6-rayed, rays usually furcate, rarely bifurcate, (moderately tuberculate or nearly smooth). Stems simple or few to several from base, erect, (often distal 1/2 branched), to 6 dm. Basal leaves: blade oblanceolate, to 9 cm, margins entire, dentate, or sinuate to lyrate-pinnatifid. Cauline leaves: (proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile); blade narrowly elliptic to linear, 2-4(-6) cm, margins entire or repand to shallowly dentate. Racemes loose. Fruiting pedicels (divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, straight), 8-20 mm. Flowers: sepals elliptic or elongate-ovate, 3.4-5.2(-6.5) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals obovate or deltate, 5-10 mm, (sometimes with short claw, margins undulate). Fruits globose or subglobose, sometimes slightly compressed, 3-6 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely papillose, densely pubescent inside, trichomes raised; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 8-18 per ovary; style 1.5-3.5 mm. Seeds flattened. 2n = 12.

Flowering and fruiting Apr-Jun. Limestone chip, black soils, grassy roadsides, fields, limestone, oak woodlands, mesquite brush lands, pastures, open dry hills; 30-700 m; Tex.
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