Chloropyron molle |
Chloropyron tecopense |
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soft bird's-beak |
Tecopa bird's-beak, Tecopa salty bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect or spreading, 10–40 cm, puberulent or hispid, hairs glandular and eglandular. |
erect to spreading, 5–60 cm, sparsely puberulent, 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. |
blades linear to linear-lanceolate, 5–15 × 1–2 mm, margins entire. |
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Spikes | 2–15 cm; bracts sometimes purple distally, lanceolate to ovate, 15–25 mm, margins pinnately 3–7-lobed. |
2–15 cm; bracts often purple distally, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 10–15 mm, margins pinnately 3-lobed near middle. |
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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. |
calyx 10–13 mm; corolla pale lavender to pale lilac, 10–15 mm, lobes 4–5 mm, occasionally marked with red-brown or purple-red lines; stamens 2, each with 2 pollen sacs; staminodes 2. |
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Capsules | narrowly ovoid, 6–10 mm. |
narrowly ellipsoid, 5–7 mm. |
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Seeds | 20–30, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1–3 mm, without abaxial crest. |
8–10, brown, ± reniform, 2–3 mm, without abaxial crest. |
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2n | = 28. |
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Chloropyron molle |
Chloropyron tecopense |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Oct. | |||||
Habitat | Alkaline meadows and flats. | |||||
Elevation | 100–900 m. (300–3000 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA; NV |
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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.) |
Chloropyron tecopense has a delicate appearance because of their slender branches with relatively small, appressed leaves. The species is found in Inyo and eastern San Bernardino counties in California and in Esmeralda County in western Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 668. | FNA vol. 17, p. 669. | ||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Chloropyron | Orobanchaceae > Chloropyron | ||||
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Synonyms | Cordylanthus mollis | Cordylanthus tecopensis | ||||
Name authority | (A. Gray) A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 3: 134. (1907) | (Munz & J. C. Roos) Tank & J. M. Egger: Syst. Bot. 34: 189. (2009) | ||||
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