Chloropyron maritimum |
Chloropyron palmatum |
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Point Reyes bird's beak, salt marsh bird's beak, saltmarsh birdbeak |
palmate salty bird's-beak, palmate-bract bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect, spreading, or decumbent, 10–40 cm, puberulent or villous, sometimes glabrescent, hairs glandular and eglandular. |
erect or spreading, 10–30 cm, sparsely pilose or glabrescent, hairs glandular. |
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Leaf | blades narrowly lanceolate, 5–30 × 2–8 mm, margins entire. |
blades narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 7–20 × 3–7 mm, margins entire or pinnately 5-lobed, lateral veins conspicuous. |
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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. |
5–15 cm; bracts often red distally, narrowly ovate to ovate, 12–20 mm, margins pinnately 3–7-lobed. |
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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. |
calyx 12–15 mm; corolla white to pale lavender, 12–20 mm, lobes 4–5 mm, often with pale lavender spots at base of abaxial lobe; stamens 2, each with 2 pollen sacs; staminodes 2. |
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Capsules | narrowly ovoid, 6–10 mm. |
narrowly ovoid, 6–7 mm. |
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Seeds | 10–40, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1–3 mm, without abaxial crest. |
14–18, brown to dark brown, ± reniform, 2.5–3 mm, with abaxial crest. |
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2n | = 42. |
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Chloropyron maritimum |
Chloropyron palmatum |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | |||||||||
Habitat | Alkaline flats. | |||||||||
Elevation | 10–150 m. (0–500 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR; UT; nw Mexico
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CA |
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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.) |
Chloropyron palmatum is threatened by agriculture and urbanization (T. I. Chuang and L. R. Heckard 1973) in Fresno, Madera, San Joaquin, and Yolo counties. Inflorescence bracts are not palmate but are more deeply incised than those of C. molle. (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. 669. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Chloropyron | Orobanchaceae > Chloropyron | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Cordylanthus maritimus | Adenostegia palmata, Cordylanthus carnulosus, C. palmatus, C. palmatus subsp. carnulosus | ||||||||
Name authority | (Nuttall ex Bentham) A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 3: 133. (1907) | (Ferris) Tank & J. M. Egger: Syst. Bot. 34: 189. (2009) | ||||||||
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