Physaria densiflora

(A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz

Novon 12: 322. 2002.

Common names: Denseflower or low bladderpod
Basionym: Vesicaria densiflora A. Gray Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6: 145. 1850
Synonyms: Lesquerella densiflora (A. Gray) S. Watson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 633. Mentioned on page 619.

Annuals or biennials; caudex simple or branched, (relatively small, cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes (spreading, sessile or short-stalked), 5–7-rayed, rays distinct and simple, (tuberculate, finely tubercled with a U-shaped notch on one side). Stems simple or few to several from base, erect or decumbent, (rarely branched, usually leafy), to 4 dm. Basal leaves: blade lyrate-pinnatifid, 1–7 cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate. Cauline leaves (sessile or shortly petiolate); blade narrowly obovate to elliptic, 0.5–6 cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate. Racemes dense, (elongated in fruit, often subtended by distal cauline leaves). Fruiting pedicels (usually divaricate-spreading, straight or slightly curved, delicate, sometimes drooping, especially on herbarium specimens), 7–10 mm, (somewhat rigid). Flowers: sepals elliptic, 3.7–7.2 mm, (lateral pair somewhat cucullate, median pair thickened apically); petals (yellow to orange-yellow), obovate to obdeltate, (4.5–)7–10(–11) mm, (tapering to short claw, apex often emarginate). Fruits (sessile or substipitate), globose or broadly obovate, not inflated, 4–6 mm, (smooth); valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 8–16 per ovary; style 2–5 mm. Seeds flattened. 2n = 14.


Phenology: Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat: Sandy, granitic, or calcareous soils, sandy ledges, limestone outcrops, rocky prairies, uplands
Elevation: 30-400 m

Discussion

Alyssum densiflorum (A. Gray) Kuntze (1891), not Desfontaines (1808) is an illegitimate name, sometimes found in synonymy with Physaria densiflora.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Steve L. O’Kane Jr. +
(A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz +
Vesicaria densiflora +
Denseflower or low bladderpod +
30-400 m +
Sandy, granitic, or calcareous soils, sandy ledges, limestone outcrops, rocky prairies, uplands +
Flowering Mar–May. +
Lesquerella densiflora +
Physaria densiflora +
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