Chloropyron maritimum
Point Reyes bird's beak, salt marsh bird's beak, saltmarsh birdbeak
erect, spreading, or decumbent, 10–40 cm, puberulent or villous, sometimes glabrescent, hairs glandular and eglandular.
blades narrowly lanceolate, 5–30 × 2–8 mm, margins entire.
2–9 cm;
bracts often purple distally, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 15–30 mm, margins entire or distally 2-toothed.
calyx 15–25 mm;
corolla white to pale yellow or pale pink, 15–25 mm, lobes 4–5 mm, often marked with red-brown or purple-red lines;
stamens 4, proximal with 2 pollen sacs, distal pair with 1 pollen sac and 1 infertile appendage;
staminodes 0.
narrowly ovoid, 6–10 mm.
10–40, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1–3 mm, without abaxial crest.
Chloropyron maritimum
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora).
There are intermediates between the subspecies (T. I. Chuang and L. R. Heckard 1973).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Seeds 25–40, 1–1.5 mm; galeas yellow to yellow-green. | subsp. canescens |
1. Seeds 10–20, 1.5–3 mm; galeas purple-red, brown-red, or pink. | → 2 |
2. Stem branches: distal usually overtopping central spike; galeas purple-red or brown-red. | subsp. maritimum |
2. Stem branches not overtopping central spike; galeas pink or purple-red. | subsp. palustre |
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