Bellardia viscosa |
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sticky parentucellia, yellow glandweed, yellow glandweed or parentucellia or bartsia, yellow parentucellia |
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Stems | simple or with few ascending branches, (8–)12–50(–100) cm, densely glandular-hairy. |
Leaves | 6–30 pairs, ascending or divaricate, glandular-hairy; blade oblong-lanceolate, (10–)20–46 x 3–18 mm, margins green, apex acute. |
Pedicels | 1 mm, glandular-hairy. |
Flowers | calyx campanulate, 10–16 mm, tube 8–10 mm, glandular-hairy, lobes +/- equal, narrowly lanceolate, 4–10 x 1.5–2 mm, herbaceous, margins entire, apex acute, glandular-hairy; corolla yellow, 20–25 mm, glandular-hairy externally, throat with 2 inflated lines between lateral and central lobes, abaxial lobes spreading, adaxial projecting; stamens included, pollen sacs yellow, 1–2 mm, glabrous proximally, villous distally around pore, dehiscing longitudinally in distal 3/4–4/5; style 10–20 mm, short-strigose; stigma capitate. |
Capsules | 6–10 x 2–4 mm, long-strigose. |
Seeds | 0.2–0.3 mm, smooth. |
Spikelike | racemes 3–30 cm; flowers 4–35 pairs, interrupted proximally, dense distally, glandular-hairy; peduncle absent; bracts foliaceous, 15–25 x 3–6 mm, margins crenate-dentate. |
2n | = 48. |
Bellardia viscosa |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Sep. |
Habitat | Wetland prairies, fields, pastures, beach foreshores, roadsides. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AR; AZ; CA; LA; MS; OK; OR; TX; WA; BC; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in s South America, e Asia, n Africa, Atlantic Islands, Pacific Islands (Hawaii, New Zealand), s Australia]
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 491. |
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Synonyms | Bartsia viscosa, Parentucellia viscosa |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 2: 4. (1836) |
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