Physaria geyeri

(Hooker) A. Gray

Gen. Amer. Bor. 1: 162. 1848.

Common names: Geyer’s bladderpod
IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Vesicaria geyeri Hooker London J. Bot. 6: 70, plate 5. 1847
Synonyms: Coulterina geyeri (Hooker) Kuntze Lesquerella geyeri (Hooker) G. A. Mulligan
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 638. Mentioned on page 617.

Perennials; caudex usually simple, (cespitose); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes (sessile), 6–8-rayed, rays mostly furcate, (tuberculate to nearly smooth). Stems several from base, decumbent, (arising laterally, unbranched), 1–3 dm. Basal leaves (numerous); (petiole slender, rarely with a few broad teeth); blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire. Cauline leaves: blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire. Racemes loose. Fruiting pedicels (ascending or spreading, slightly curved or sigmoid), 1–2 cm. Flowers: sepals oblong, 5–7 mm; petals (yellow to purplish), spatulate, 8–12 mm. Fruits obcordate, angustiseptate, somewhat inflated, (not bladdery), 5–7 × 6–9 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent, apical sinus broad and open); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading; replum ovate, 5–7 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute or obtuse; ovules 4–6 per ovary; style 5–7 mm.

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Replum apices acute; ovules 4 per ovary; petals yellow, drying yellow. Physaria geyeri subsp. geyeri
1 Replum apices obtuse; ovules usually 6 per ovary; petals purplish or light yellow, drying purplish. Physaria geyeri subsp. purpurea

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ovate +  and narrowly oblong +
obtuse +  and acute +
Steve L. O’Kane Jr. +
(Hooker) A. Gray +
Vesicaria geyeri +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
repand +  and dentate +
oblanceolate;obovate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
sessile +  and petiolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
not +  and differentiated +
Geyer’s bladderpod +
emarginate +  and entire +
Idaho +, Mont. +, Oreg. +  and Wash. +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
spatulate +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
2-valved +  and capsular +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
inflated +, angustiseptate +  and obcordate +
latiseptate +, stipitate +, , +, subsessile +  and sessile +
angustiseptate +, terete +, not +, inflated +, not torulose +, obovoid +, ovoid +, ovate +, obpyriform +, oblong +, obdeltate +, obcordate +, lanceolate +, elliptic +, ellipsoid +, suborbicular +, orbicular +, subglobose +  and globose +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
angustiseptate +  and terete +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
cauline +  and basal +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
sinuate;dentate;sinuate;dentate +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
purple +, white +, orange +  and yellow +
rudimentary +
obdeltate +, oblanceolate +, ovate +, obovate +  and spatulate +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
Gen. Amer. Bor. +
ascending +, spreading +, horizontal +  and erect +
slender +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
furcate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
not +  and mucilaginous +
margined +  and winged +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
suborbicular +, lenticular +  and flattened +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
spreading +  and erect +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
perforate +  and complete +
reduced +
latiseptate +, schizocarpic +, samaroid +  and lomentaceous +
indehiscent +  and dehiscent +
angustiseptate +, flat +, angled +, terete +, torulose +, not +, segmented +  and nutletlike +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
tetradynamous +
branched +  and unbranched +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
spreading +  and erect +
2-lobed +  and entire +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
Coulterina geyeri +  and Lesquerella geyeri +
Physaria geyeri +
Physaria +
species +
simple +, stalked +, subsessile +  and sessile +
stellate-scalelike +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
anastomosing +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
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