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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Physaria sessilis
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=12: 328. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|common_names=Sessile bladderpod
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lesquerella gracilis var. sessilis
|authority=S. Watson
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lesquerella sessilis
|authority=(S. Watson) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae;Physaria;Physaria sessilis
|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 sessilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 619
|treatment_page=page 663
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or biennials; with a fine taproot; densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 4–6-rayed, rays usually furcate, rarely bifurcate, (moderately tuberculate or nearly smooth). <b>Stems</b> simple or few to several from base, erect, (often distal 1/2 branched), to 6 dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves: blade oblanceolate, to 9 cm, margins entire, dentate, or sinuate to lyrate-pinnatifid. <b>Cauline</b> leaves: (proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile); blade narrowly elliptic to linear, 2–4(–6) cm, margins entire or repand to shallowly dentate. <b>Racemes</b> loose. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels (divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, straight), 8–20 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals elliptic or elongate-ovate, 3.4–5.2(–6.5) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals obovate or deltate, 5–10 mm, (sometimes with short claw, margins undulate). <b>Fruits</b> globose or subglobose, sometimes slightly compressed, 3–6 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely papillose, densely pubescent inside, trichomes raised; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 8–18 per ovary; style 1.5–3.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> flattened. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Limestone chip, black soils, grassy roadsides, fields, limestone, oak woodlands, mesquite brush lands, pastures, open dry hills
|elevation=30-700 m
|distribution=Tex.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Physaria sessilis
|author=
|authority=(S. Watson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lesquerella sessilis
|basionyms=Lesquerella gracilis var. sessilis
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Limestone chip, black soils, grassy roadsides, fields, limestone, oak woodlands, mesquite brush lands, pastures, open dry hills
|elevation=30-700 m
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2002
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_1130.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
|genus=Physaria
|species=Physaria sessilis
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