Species Information
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Anthophyta
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Order: Capparales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Physaria
Species: aurea
Golden Bladderpod - Physaria aurea
Image courtesy of New Mexico Rare Plants
367313
Species Extent (New Mexico)
General Description
Biennial or short-lived perennial, usually densely pubescent, the hairs sessile or short-stipitate, simple or forked, 5- to 9-rayed, smooth or finely granular; stems several, erect or the outer ones decumbent or procumbent, simple or sometimes much branched in the upper half, to 6 dm high but usually much less; basal leaves obovate or rhombic and shallowly dentate, petiolate, sometimes lyrate-pinnatifid, to about 2.5 cm long; stem leaves obovate to rhombic or oblanceolate, entire to shallowly and remotely dentate, the upper sessile, the lower short-petiolate, 2-4(6) cm long; inflorescences usually dense and many-flowered; petals yellow, 4.5-7.5 mm long; fruiting pedicels strongly recurved, to 2 cm long; silicles sessile or nearly so (not stipitate), ovoid and slightly obcompressed or globose, 4-6 mm long, valves sparsely pubescent or glabrous on exterior, sparsely pubescent on interior; styles 2.5-3.6 mm long; ovules 2(3) per locule. Flowers July-September, after the summer rains begin.
Status
Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database
Number of Subpopulations: 5
Number of Mapped Locations: 97
Number of Observations: 143
Observation date range: 08-07-1905 to 09-14-2003
External Links
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New Mexico Rare Plants Website
Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)
NatureServe Explorer
New Mexico Rare Plants Website
Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)