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sticky parentucellia, yellow glandweed, yellow glandweed or parentucellia or bartsia, yellow parentucellia

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

Phenology Flowering Apr–Sep.
Habitat Wetland prairies, fields, pastures, beach foreshores, roadsides.
Elevation 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
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.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Bellardia
Sibling taxa
B. latifolia, B. trixago
Synonyms Bartsia viscosa, Parentucellia viscosa
Name authority (Linnaeus) Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 2: 4. (1836)
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