bladderpod
nounEtymology From bladder + pod.
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Any of various flowering plants, including Cleome isomeris (= Isomeris arborea), Peritoma arborea, Lobelia inflata, and species of Physaria (= Lesquerella) and Paysonia.
- c. 1977-1989, Donald W. (Hank) Nicol, Notes from the Naturalist, page 50, The bladderpod (Isomeris arborea) is a pretty bush. It has loads of bright yellow flowers and the punching bag seed pods that give it its name. But, to be honest, it stinks!
- As early as February, the ground between creosote bushes begins to turn yellow as masses of bladderpod^([Lesquerella gordoni]) start to bloom.1989, Janice E. Bowers, 100 Desert Wildflowers of the Southwest, unnumbered page:
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- Bladderpod^([Isomeris arborea]) is fast growing, and the yellow flowers and blue-green foliage are attractive in mass plantings.2009, Susan Van Atta, Southern California Native Flower Garden, page 66: