Lesquerella

Wild Ginger Farm

**This is the Plant Reference area of the Wild Ginger Farm website. **

Plants listed on this page may not be available for sale at this time.

Please visit our mail order catalog to view currently available plants.

Some plants are available exclusively at our retail nursery.

Lesquerella

Bladderpod

Lesquerella alpina

Lesquerella alpina, Alpine Bladderpod ©

Lesquerella alpina

Alpine Bladderpod

Rosettes of gray-green leaves with short stems with lemon yellow flowers in late spring, followed by showy seedpods. Full sun, sharply drained soil, low water. 3- 6" high. Hardy to –20 degrees F Mountains of the Interior West Brassicaceae

Lesquerella arizonica

Arizona Bladderpod

Compact rosette of gray leaves smothered with yellow flowers in spring. Full sun, sharply drained soil, low water. 2 x 8”. Hardy to –20 degrees F. Brassicaceae

Alyssoides utriculata (formerly sold as Lesquerella sp)

Alyssoides utriculata © Lemon yellow flowers

Alyssoides utriculata Bladderpod

Bladderpod

Low growing rosette of green leaves with spikes of lemon yellow flowers in late spring, followed by showy seedpods. Full sun, sharply drained soil, low water. Hardy to –20 degrees F Brassicaceae

This plant was grown from seeds labeled Lesquerella kingii but the plant seems too green and vigorous, so we have decided to remove that name until we can verify the species. This is a very nice plant, nonetheless, with showy yellow flowers and eye-catching spikes of bladderpods up to 18" above the basal rosettes.

2009 Update: Great for the sunny, dry garden, this reliable performer has now been identified as a Alyssoides utriculata, a bladderpod of Southern European mountain origin.

Lesquerella tumulosa

Kodachrome Bladderpod

Hard cushions of tiny grayish-green leaves with yellow flowers on very short stems in spring. Sun, sharply drained soil, low water. 2 x 8” –20 degrees F. Kane County, Utah Brassicaceae