Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Yellow ), 0 by htop

htop wrote:
Silver Bladderpod (Lesquerella argyraea), Brassicaceae Family, native (only Texas and Mexico, biennial/perennial, blooms from March to May

Silver bladderpod can be found growing natively only in the Edwards Plateau and South Texas Plains Regions of Texas and the northern region of Mexico. It prefers calcareous limestone and sandy soils. It grows to a height of between 6 and 28 inches and its stems(can have several from the base) and alternate, simple leaves are finely pubescent being covered with stellate hairs. The entire, toothed or wavy upper stem leaves are 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches long and are narrowly linear to broad: whereas, the entire to deeply pinnately lobed basal leaves are approximately 3 inches long. The foliage is covered with minute stellate hairs.

The 4-petalled yellow flowers are from 1/4 to 3/4 inches in diameter with four long and two short stamen. The 1/8 to 3/8 wide fruit (silicles) are usually round or elliptical. They are smooth, appear on pedicels that usually have an S-shaped curve. and are glabrous (hairless). The seeds are eaten by scaled quail and have been used as a peppery seasoning (not by the quail, but by man). The leaves are eaten by white-tailed deer.

Distribution:
http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=Texas&statefip...

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/137410/index.html

This plant was in an area where trash was being dumped illegally. I went back to take more and better photos - it was under a pile of debri.