Cordylanthus capitatus |
Cordylanthus eremicus |
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Yakima bird's-beak, Yakima birdbeak |
desert bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect or ascending, 10–50 cm, densely glandular-pubescent and pilose. |
erect or ascending, 10–80 cm, puberulent, glabrescent. |
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Leaves | glandular-pubescent and pilose; proximal 20–40(–50) mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1–2 mm wide; distal 10–30 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
puberulent, sometimes scabrous; proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3–7-lobed, lobes 1 mm wide; distal 5–25 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
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Inflorescences | capitate spikes, 2–5-flowered; bracts 1–5, 10–20 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes green and purple, linear to linear-lanceolate. |
capitate spikes, 3–14-flowered; bracts 5–10, 5–20 mm, margins 5–7-lobed, lobes purple or yellow-green, linear to filiform. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 12–18 mm, margins entire. |
bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire. |
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Flowers | calyx 10–15 mm, tube 2–4 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 3–5 mm; corolla purple-red, apex yellow, 10–20 mm, throat 4–6 mm diam., abaxial lip 3–5 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial; stamens 2, filaments glabrous, fertile pollen sacs 1 per filament, vestigial pollen sacs present. |
calyx 10–20 mm, tube 1–3 mm, apex entire or 2-fid, cleft 0–0.5 mm; corolla pink to lavender-pink, usually spotted with purple, 10–20 mm, throat 4–6 mm diam., abaxial lip pink or yellow, 3–6 mm, shorter than and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, equal. |
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Capsules | ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 5–7 mm. |
oblong-lanceoloid, 7–10 mm. |
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Seeds | 4–6, dark brown, narrowly ovoid to reniform, 2–2.5 mm, reticulate. |
10–15, pale brown, ovoid, 1.5–2 mm, reticulate. |
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2n | = 26. |
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Cordylanthus capitatus |
Cordylanthus eremicus |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Oct. | |||||
Habitat | Openings in conifer woodlands and juniper scrub. | |||||
Elevation | 1400–2300 m. (4600–7500 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; ID; NV; OR; WA
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CA |
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Discussion | Cordylanthus capitatus is often associated with Artemisia tridentata and may be hemiparasitic on it. Cordylanthus capitatus is distinguished by having only two anthers, each with one fertile pollen sac; infertile vestiges of the second pollen sac usually are present. The species can be recognized by its short-capitate inflorescences, the single, spathelike, deeply cleft calyx lobe, and the purple-red corollas with yellow tips. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Cordylanthus eremicus is similar to C. wrightii, which also has relatively short, dense spikes and inflorescence bracts palmately three- to seven-lobed. Cordylanthus eremicus can be distinguished from C. wrightii by its gray to white hairs. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 671. | FNA vol. 17, p. 671. | ||||
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Synonyms | C. nevadensis | Adenostegia eremica, C. ramosus subsp. eremicus | ||||
Name authority | Nuttall ex Bentham: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 10: 597. (1846) | (Coville & C. V. Morton) Munz: Man. S. Calif. Bot., 483, 601. (1935) | ||||
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