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Intermountain Bladderpod

Physaria hemiphysaria

Also called Skyline Bladderpod

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Utah (Wasatch Plateau)
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Physaria hemiphysaria (formerly Lesquerella hemiphysaria) is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names Intermountain bladderpod and skyline bladderpod. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it grows on rocky ridges and outcrops of sandstone, shale, clay, and sand.

This perennial herb produces stout, decumbent stems up to 10 or 20 centimeters long from a caudex. The leaves are up to 5.5 centimeters long, the upper ones smaller. The basal leaves may have toothed edges and the upper ones are smooth-edged. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers with narrow yellow petals. The fruit is a silique a few millimeters long.

Other Physaria plants

Bladderpod · Avery Peak twinpod · Arctic Bladderpod · Front Range twinpod · Chambers' twinpod · Dudley Bluffs Bladderpod · Common twinpod · Fendler's Bladderpod · Missouri Bladderpod · Pointtip twinpod · Fremont Bladderpod · Globe Bladderpod

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Physaria hemiphysaria by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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