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|accepted_name=Physaria densiflora
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=12: 322. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|common_names=Denseflower or low bladderpod
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Vesicaria densiflora
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|publication_place=6: 145. 1850
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lesquerella densiflora
|authority=(A. Gray) S. Watson
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae;Physaria;Physaria densiflora
|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 densiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 619
|treatment_page=page 633
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or biennials; caudex simple or branched, (relatively small, cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes (spreading, sessile or short-stalked), 5–7-rayed, rays distinct and simple, (tuberculate, finely tubercled with a U-shaped notch on one side). <b>Stems</b> simple or few to several from base, erect or decumbent, (rarely branched, usually leafy), to 4 dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves: blade lyrate-pinnatifid, 1–7 cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate. <b>Cauline</b> leaves (sessile or shortly petiolate); blade narrowly obovate to elliptic, 0.5–6 cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate. <b>Racemes</b> dense, (elongated in fruit, often subtended by distal cauline leaves). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels (usually divaricate-spreading, straight or slightly curved, delicate, sometimes drooping, especially on herbarium specimens), 7–10 mm, (somewhat rigid). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals elliptic, 3.7–7.2 mm, (lateral pair somewhat cucullate, median pair thickened apically); petals (yellow to orange-yellow), obovate to obdeltate, (4.5–)7–10(–11) mm, (tapering to short claw, apex often emarginate). <b>Fruits</b> (sessile or substipitate), globose or broadly obovate, not inflated, 4–6 mm, (smooth); valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 8–16 per ovary; style 2–5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> flattened. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Sandy, granitic, or calcareous soils, sandy ledges, limestone outcrops, rocky prairies, uplands
|elevation=30-400 m
|distribution=Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Alyssum</i> densiflorum (A. Gray) Kuntze (1891), not Desfontaines (1808) is an illegitimate name, sometimes found in synonymy with <i>Physaria densiflora</i>.</p>
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name=Physaria densiflora
|authority=(A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lesquerella densiflora
|basionyms=Vesicaria densiflora
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Sandy, granitic, or calcareous soils, sandy ledges, limestone outcrops, rocky prairies, uplands
|elevation=30-400 m
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2002
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_1038.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
|genus=Physaria
|species=Physaria densiflora
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