Chloropyron palmatum
palmate salty bird's-beak, palmate-bract bird's-beak
erect or spreading, 10–30 cm, sparsely pilose or glabrescent, hairs glandular.
blades narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 7–20 × 3–7 mm, margins entire or pinnately 5-lobed, lateral veins conspicuous.
5–15 cm;
bracts often red distally, narrowly ovate to ovate, 12–20 mm, margins pinnately 3–7-lobed.
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.
narrowly ovoid, 6–7 mm.
14–18, brown to dark brown, ± reniform, 2.5–3 mm, with abaxial crest.
= 42.
Chloropyron palmatum
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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