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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Physaria alpina
|accepted_authority=Rollins
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=33: 339. 1981
|year=1981
}}
|common_names=Avery Peak or alpine twinpod
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae;Physaria;Physaria alpina
|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 alpina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 618, 660
|treatment_page=page 624
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; (with a long taproot), caudex usually buried, simple, (enlarged, covered with marcescent leaf bases, crown rosulate and horizontal to somewhat ascending, forming a dense crown at apex of caudex); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes (sessile or stipitate), 5–8-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (rounded to umbonate, strongly tuberculate, less so or smooth over center). <b>Stems</b> few from base, decumbent, (arising laterally proximal to current season’s leaves), 0.3–0.8 dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves: (petiole slender); blade broadly obovate, or deltate to ovate or narrower, 1.5–3.5 cm, (base abruptly to gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire or obscurely few-toothed, (apex usually obtuse, nearly acute in narrower leaves). <b>Cauline</b> leaves: (2–5 per stem); blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, margins entire, (apex acute). <b>Racemes</b> loose, (3–6-flowered). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels (widely spreading to ascending, slightly curved or straight), 7–11 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals narrowly oblong to linear, 7–9 mm; petals (erect), spatulate, 10–12(–15) mm. <b>Fruits</b> (usually purplish in age), didymous, irregular and somewhat angular, not highly inflated, 4–11 × 10–13 mm, (coriaceous, papery, shallowly grooved distally and on sides, tapered and narrowed toward replum, base obtuse to truncate, apex with broad sinus to nearly truncate); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, not silvery; replum elliptic to obovate, as wide as or wider than fruit, base rounded, margins sparsely pubescent or glabrous, apex rounded (with funicles); ovules 4 per ovary; style 5–7 mm, (glabrous). <b>Seeds</b> flattened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Whitish or red substrates from limestone or dolomite, ridge crests, rocky alpine tundra and open areas
|elevation=3500-4000 m
|distribution=Colo.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Physaria alpina
|authority=Rollins
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Whitish or red substrates from limestone or dolomite, ridge crests, rocky alpine tundra and open areas
|elevation=3500-4000 m
|distribution=Colo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1981
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_1014.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
|genus=Physaria
|species=Physaria alpina
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