Chloropyron molle |
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soft bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect or spreading, 10–40 cm, puberulent or hispid, hairs glandular and eglandular. |
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Leaf | blades narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 5–30 × 2–10 mm, margins entire or 7-lobed, lateral veins conspicuous. |
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Spikes | 2–15 cm; bracts sometimes purple distally, lanceolate to ovate, 15–25 mm, margins pinnately 3–7-lobed. |
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Flowers | calyx 15–20 mm; corolla greenish white, white, or pale yellow, 15–20 mm, lobes 5–7 mm, often marked with dark red (especially toward base); stamens 2, each with 2 pollen sacs; staminodes 2. |
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Capsules | narrowly ovoid, 6–10 mm. |
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Seeds | 20–30, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1–3 mm, without abaxial crest. |
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Chloropyron molle |
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Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). The coastal and inland subspecies intergrade. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 668. | ||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Chloropyron | ||||
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Synonyms | Cordylanthus mollis | ||||
Name authority | (A. Gray) A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 3: 134. (1907) | ||||
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