Physaria montana

(A. Gray) Greene

Mountain Bladderpod

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Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.158372
Element CodePDBRA1N150
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVascular Plant
KingdomPlantae
PhylumAnthophyta
ClassDicotyledoneae
OrderCapparales
FamilyBrassicaceae
GenusPhysaria
Synonyms
Lesquerella montana(Gray) S. Wats.
Other Common Names
mountain bladderpod (EN)
Concept Reference
Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Taxonomic Comments
Treated as Physaria montana in Flora North America (2010, vol. 7), the distribution in Kartesz (1999) is similar but not equal to that presented in FNA. Kartesz (1999) includes a report in Utah from Rollins (1993), and FNA includes a report from Arizona which Kartesz (1999) does not, however, the material in Arizona may have been discovered after 1999. Finally, FNA notes that "Physaria montana is a rather variable species that in southwestern Colorado morphologically approaches P. rectipes and in eastern Wyoming approaches P. curvipes".
Conservation Status
Review Date1988-12-15
Change Date1988-12-15
Ecology & Habitat

Habitat

This species is found on banks, rock outcrops, from plains into benchland into stony slopes and mountains, in sagebrush, open scrub oak, ponderosa pine, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and Douglas fir on granitic, often gravelly, non-calcareous soils (Wildflower Center, 2020).
Terrestrial Habitats
Woodland - HardwoodWoodland - ConiferWoodland - MixedShrubland/chaparralGrassland/herbaceous
Palustrine Habitats
Riparian
Other Nations (1)
United StatesNNR
ProvinceRankNative
South DakotaS1Yes
UtahSNRYes
NebraskaS2Yes
New MexicoSNRYes
ColoradoS4Yes
ArizonaSHYes
WyomingS4Yes
Plant Characteristics
Economic Value (Genus)Yes
Roadless Areas (1)
Colorado (1)
AreaForestAcres
Comanche Peak Adjacent AreaArapaho & Roosevelt NFs44,158
References (5)
  1. Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 7. Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxii + 797 pp.
  2. Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
  3. Kartesz, J.T. 1999. A synonymized checklist and atlas with biological attributes for the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. First edition. In: Kartesz, J.T., and C.A. Meacham. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, N.C.
  4. Rollins, R.C. 1993a. The Cruciferae of continental North America: Systematics of the mustard family from the Arctic to Panama. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, California. 976 pp.
  5. Wildflower Center. 2020. Native Plant Database: <i>Lesquerella montana</i>. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas, Austin. Accessed: September 19, 2022. https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=LEMO3