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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Physaria pallida
|accepted_authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=12: 326. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|common_names=White bladderpod
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Vesicaria grandiflora var. pallida
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=1: 101. 1838
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alyssum pallidum
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) Kuntze
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lesquerella pallida
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) S. Watson
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vesicaria pallida
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae;Physaria;Physaria pallida
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Physaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Physaria pallida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 619, 657
|treatment_page=page 656
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>(winter); with a fine taproot; sparsely pubescent, trichomes (minute), 3- or 4-rayed, rays furcate or, sometimes, trifurcate. <b>Stems</b> few to several from base, erect, (from basal leaf cluster, branched distally, flowering branches slender, subtended by bracts), 3–6 dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves: blade oblanceolate or broadly obovate, to 10 cm, margins usually sinuate-dentate or entire, sometimes lobed. <b>Cauline</b> leaves: (proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile); blade oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, similar to basal, (distal with base slightly cuneate). <b>Racemes</b> paniculate, (rachises and pedicels more densely pubescent than proximal leaves). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels (widely divaricate-ascending and straight, or slightly recurved), 10–15 mm, (slender, pubescent). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals elliptic, 3–7 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate); petals (white), broadly ovate, to 12 mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw). <b>Fruits</b> (widely spreading to nearly pendent in age, shortly stipitate), globose or subglobose, not or slightly inflated, 3–10 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 8–12 per ovary; style ca. 2 mm, (slender, fragile). <b>Seeds</b> flattened. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–May.
|habitat=Grassy openings of small glade prairies, outcrops
|elevation=90 m
|distribution=Tex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Physaria pallida</i> is known from the Weches Formation in San Augustine County.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Physaria pallida
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alyssum pallidum;Lesquerella pallida;Vesicaria pallida
|basionyms=Vesicaria grandiflora var. pallida
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–May.
|habitat=Grassy openings of small glade prairies, outcrops
|elevation=90 m
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2002
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_1112.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
|genus=Physaria
|species=Physaria pallida
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