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Physaria ludoviciana is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family Brassicaceae, with the common names of bladder pod, silver bladderpod, louisiana bladderpod, and foothill bladderpod. It used to be Lesquerella ludoviciana which is now a synonym. The plant is a source of auricolic acid, a rare fatty acid.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Silvery Bladderpod being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Physaria douglasii
- Physaria spatulata
- Physaria rectipes
- Physaria montana
- Physaria arenosa
- Physaria engelmannii
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Brassicales
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Physaria
- Species
- Physaria ludoviciana
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