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Physaria tumulosa
Physaria tumulosa, known by the common name Kodachrome bladderpod, is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from Kane County. There is only one known population of this plant, made up of scattered occurrences totaling about 20,000 individuals, all within the Kodachrome Basin. The plant is threatened by the loss and degradation of its habitat. It is federally listed as an endangered species. It was previously treated as a subspecies of Physaria hitchcockii.
P. tumulosa is a perennial herb producing short stems from a buried caudex and forming a tough mat just a few centimeters tall and a few centimeters in diameter. The mat has hairy, somewhat fleshy leaves which are linear or lance-shaped and up to 1.2 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a crowded raceme of bright yellow flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Physaria tumulosa 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.
