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Lescur's Bladderpod

Paysonia lescurii

Also called Lescur’s Bladderpod, Nashville Mustard

Lescur's Bladderpod
Photo: Mason Brock (Masebrock), Public domain

Lescur's bladderpod is a small annual wildflower from the cabbage family, native to Middle Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama, where it grows in wet fields, lawns and roadsides. It is rarely grown in gardens, and its key care need is consistently moist soil in full sun.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, especially during germination and flowering.
Soil
Moist, fertile or clay-loam soil; tolerates wet ground.
Temperature
Temperate; tolerates cool spring weather and frost, hot summers may end the plant's season.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Kentucky to Alabama
Climate
temperate

About

Paysonia lescurii is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by the common names Lescur's bladderpod or Nashville mustard. It is native to Middle Tennessee in the United States, where it can be found in wet fields, lawns, and roadsides. It is also present in neighboring areas of the U.S. states of Kentucky and Alabama.

Other Paysonia plants

Earleaf Bladderpod · Lyrate Bladderpod · Spring Creek Bladderpod · Stone River Bladderpod · Paysonia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Paysonia lescurii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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