Chloropyron maritimum |
Chloropyron maritimum subsp. canescens |
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Point Reyes bird's beak, salt marsh bird's beak, saltmarsh birdbeak |
alkali bird's-beak, alkali birdbeak, salt marsh bird's beak |
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Stems | erect, spreading, or decumbent, 10–40 cm, puberulent or villous, sometimes glabrescent, hairs glandular and eglandular. |
15–40 cm, canescent, villous, hairs spreading; branches erect or ascending, distals overtopping central spike. |
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Leaves | blades narrowly lanceolate, 5–30 × 2–8 mm, margins entire. |
15–30 mm. |
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Spikes | 2–9 cm; bracts often purple distally, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 15–30 mm, margins entire or distally 2-toothed. |
bract margins entire or distally 2-toothed. |
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Flowers | 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. |
corolla tube and abaxial lip white to pale pink, galea yellow to yellow-green. |
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Capsules | narrowly ovoid, 6–10 mm. |
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Seeds | 10–40, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1–3 mm, without abaxial crest. |
25–40, 1–1.5 mm. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Chloropyron maritimum |
Chloropyron maritimum subsp. canescens |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep. | |||||||||
Habitat | Inland alkaline flats. | |||||||||
Elevation | 600–1900 m. (2000–6200 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR; UT; nw Mexico
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CA; NV; OR; UT |
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Discussion | 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.) |
Subspecies canescens is the most widespread of the subspecies. Plants are always erect and have ascending branches. The stems are villous with conspicuous, straight, spreading white hairs. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 666. | FNA vol. 17, p. 667. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Chloropyron | Orobanchaceae > Chloropyron > Chloropyron maritimum | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Cordylanthus maritimus | Cordylanthus canescens, C. maritimus subsp. canescens | ||||||||
Name authority | (Nuttall ex Bentham) A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 3: 133. (1907) | (A. Gray) Tank & J. M. Egger: Syst. Bot. 34: 188. (2009) | ||||||||
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