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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Physaria prostrata
|accepted_authority=(A. Nelson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=12: 327. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|common_names=Low bladderpod
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lesquerella prostrata
|authority=A. Nelson
|rank=species
|publication_title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication_place=26: 124. 1899
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae;Physaria;Physaria prostrata
|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 prostrata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 623
|treatment_page=page 658
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; caudex branched; densely pubescent, trichomes (usually sessile, rarely short-stalked), several-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (umbonate, tuberculate throughout). <b>Stems</b> several from base, usually prostrate, rarely decumbent, (unbranched, often purplish, sparsely pubescent), to 1.5 dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves: blade deltate, hastate, or, less often, rhombic to elliptic, 1–5 cm, margins entire (often partially involute). <b>Cauline</b> leaves: (proximal shortly petiolate); blade linear to oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire. <b>Racemes</b> loose, elongated. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels (ascending, slightly sigmoid to straight), 5–10 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals (often purplish), oblong, lanceolate, or ovate, 4–6 mm, (median pair thickened apically); petals spatulate or cuneate, 5–8(–9) mm, (margins undulate). <b>Fruits</b> ovoid or ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 3–5(–6) mm, (base often gibbous); valves pubescent, trichomes loose, furcate near their bases and spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside; ovules 4(–8) per ovary; style 1.5–4 mm. <b>Seeds</b> flattened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Whitish sand and small rocks on steep slopes, dry hillsides, windswept knolls, shaley slopes
|elevation=1800-2500 m
|distribution=Idaho;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Physaria prostrata</i> is sometimes found on igneous substrates, which is unusual for the genus.</p>
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name=Physaria prostrata
|authority=(A. Nelson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Lesquerella prostrata
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Whitish sand and small rocks on steep slopes, dry hillsides, windswept knolls, shaley slopes
|elevation=1800-2500 m
|distribution=Idaho;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2002
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_1117.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
|genus=Physaria
|species=Physaria prostrata
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