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Physaria multiceps
(Maguire) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
Family:
Brassicaceae
Many-Head Bladderpod
[
Lesquerella multiceps
Maguire]
FNA
Resources
Steve L. O´Kane Jr. in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials;
caudex (buried), branched, (not thickened); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 5-8 -rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (umbonate, rough to finely tuberculate throughout).
Stems
several from base, prostrate, (slender, sparsely pubescent), 0.5-2 dm.
Basal leaves:
blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5-6 cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (surfaces densely pubescent, often silvery).
Cauline leaves:
blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5-1 cm, margins entire, (surfaces often sparsely pubescent).
Racemes
(narrow), loose, (elongated in fruit).
Fruiting pedicels
(ascending to somewhat spreading, straight to slightly curved), 4-8(-12) mm.
Flowers:
sepals (greenish brown, sometimes magenta), linear or elliptic, 4.3-6(-7.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals (frequently pink or magenta in distal 1/3-1/2), spatulate to oblanceolate, 6-10(-12) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).
Fruits
broadly ovoid to suborbicular, inflated, (terete or, often, slightly angustiseptate), 3-6 mm; valves sparsely pubescent; ovules usually 4, rarely 6-8 per ovary; style 3-6.5 mm.
Seeds
plump.
Flowering May-Jul. Douglas-fir or spruce woodlands, limestone ridges, damp open slopes, soil pockets among rocks, crevices of rocks, decomposed calcareous rocks; 2400-2900 m; Idaho, Utah, Wyo.
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This project made possible by National Science Foundation Awards
1601697
,
1600981
,
1601393
,
1600976
,
1601429
,
1601101
,
1601503
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