Cordylanthus eremicus |
Cordylanthus pringlei |
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desert bird's-beak |
Pringle's bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect or ascending, 10–80 cm, puberulent, glabrescent. |
erect or ascending, 30–120(–150) cm, glabrous or puberulent. |
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Leaves | puberulent, sometimes scabrous; proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3–7-lobed, lobes 1 mm wide; distal 5–25 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
puberulent or glabrous; proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1–2 mm wide; distal 5–20 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
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Inflorescences | capitate spikes, 3–14-flowered; bracts 5–10, 5–20 mm, margins 5–7-lobed, lobes purple or yellow-green, linear to filiform. |
capitate spikes, 2–4-flowered, 15–20 mm; bracts 1–3, flabelliform, 5–8 mm, margins 3–7-lobed, lobes green, narrowly ovate. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire. |
bracteoles 8–10 mm, margins entire. |
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Flowers | 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. |
calyx 8–10 mm, tube 0 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 0.5–1 mm; corolla pale yellow to yellow with purple markings, 8–9 mm, throat 4 mm diam., adaxial lip 3–4 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, unequal. |
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Capsules | oblong-lanceoloid, 7–10 mm. |
oblong-ovoid, 5–8 mm. |
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Seeds | 10–15, pale brown, ovoid, 1.5–2 mm, reticulate. |
4–6, dark brown, ovoid to narrowly reniform, 2.5–3 mm, striate. |
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2n | = 28. |
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Cordylanthus eremicus |
Cordylanthus pringlei |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | |||||
Habitat | Dry openings in chaparral and mixed-evergreen forests. | |||||
Elevation | 300–1900 m. (1000–6200 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA |
CA |
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Discussion | 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.) |
Cordylanthus pringlei grows in the Coast Range of California. The species is distinctive because of its flabelliform inflorescence bracts and relatively short corollas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 671. | FNA vol. 17, p. 674. | ||||
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Synonyms | Adenostegia eremica, C. ramosus subsp. eremicus | |||||
Name authority | (Coville & C. V. Morton) Munz: Man. S. Calif. Bot., 483, 601. (1935) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 94. (1883) | ||||
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