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Physaria curvipes
(A. Nelson) Grady & O'Kane
Family:
Brassicaceae
Curved Bladderpod
[
Lesquerella curvipes
A. Nelson]
FNA
Resources
Steve L. O´Kane Jr. in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials;
caudex simple; densely pubescent, trichomes (often wavy, closely appressed to blade surfaces), 4-5-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, slightly fused near base, (tuberculate throughout).
Stems
simple from base, loosely spreading, usually decumbent, (well exserted from basal leaves, often reddish purple), 0.8-2.4 dm.
Basal leaves:
blade (erect), spatulate to nearly rhombic, 2.5-5(-9) cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (flat).
Cauline leaves:
blade spatulate, similar to basal, margins entire.
Racemes
loose, (elongated, exceeding basal leaves).
Fruiting pedicels
(ascending, curved or sigmoid), 4-7 mm.
Flowers:
sepals (pale yellow), lingulate to spatulate, 3.5-4 mm; petals narrowly oblanceolate, 4-6 mm.
Fruits
ellipsoid, not inflated (strongly latiseptate, more so at apex), (3-)5-9 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes closely appressed to surface; ovules 4-8 per ovary; style 2.5-4.5 mm (never more than 1/2 fruit length).
Seeds
plump.
Flowering Jun-Jul. Limestone outcrops; 1600-2800 m; Mont., Wyo.
Physaria curvipes
is known from the Big Horn Mountains.
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This project made possible by National Science Foundation Awards
1601697
,
1600981
,
1601393
,
1600976
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1601429
,
1601101
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1601503
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