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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Physaria pruinosa
|accepted_authority=(Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=12: 327. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|common_names=Frosty or Pagosa bladderpod
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lesquerella pruinosa
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|publication_title=Pittonia
|publication_place=4: 307. 1901
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae;Physaria;Physaria pruinosa
|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 pruinosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 620
|treatment_page=page 658
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; caudex simple or branched, (covered with persistent leaf bases); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or subsessile), 4–7-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate throughout). <b>Stems</b> simple or several from base, decumbent or erect, (unbranched), to 2 dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves: (petiole sharply differentiated from blade, slender); blade suborbicular or obovate to rhombic, 4–8 cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (abaxial surface densely pubescent, adaxial lightly pubescent). <b>Cauline</b> leaves: (proximal petiolate, distal sessile); blade obovate to rhombic, 0.8–2.3 cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed. <b>Racemes</b> dense, (somewhat elongated in fruit). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels (horizontal to ascending, sigmoid or slightly curved), 8–11 mm, (stout). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals elliptic or oblong, ca. 6 mm, (lateral pair not saccate or subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals spatulate, ca. 9 mm, (claw expanded at base). <b>Fruits</b> (sessile or substipitate, often becoming copper-red in age), subglobose or ellipsoid, inflated, 6–9 mm, (firm, glossy); valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4–8(–12) per ovary; style 3.5–7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> somewhat flattened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun(-Aug).
|habitat=Mancos slate or shale, meadows, gentle slopes, edges of ponderosa pine stands
|elevation=2100-2600 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>The one New Mexico population is near the border with Colorado, in Rio Arriba County.</p>
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name=Physaria pruinosa
|authority=(Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Lesquerella pruinosa
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun(-Aug).
|habitat=Mancos slate or shale, meadows, gentle slopes, edges of ponderosa pine stands
|elevation=2100-2600 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2002
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
|genus=Physaria
|species=Physaria pruinosa
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