Cordylanthus parviflorus |
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purple bird's-beak, small-flower bird's-beak, sticky bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect to ascending, 20–60 cm, hirsute and densely glandular-pubescent. |
Leaves | glandular-pubescent and hirsute; proximal 10–30 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1 mm wide; distal 5–20 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
Inflorescences | spikes, 2-flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts 1(or 2), 5–15 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes sometimes purplish distally, linear-lanceolate. |
Pedicels | bracteoles 10–12 mm, margins entire. |
Flowers | calyx 10–15 mm, tube 5–8 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 1 mm; corolla pale pink to purple-pink with darker veins, 15–20 mm, tube 10–15 mm, throat 5–7 mm diam., abaxial lip 5–6 mm, shorter than and not appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, equal. |
Capsules | oblong-lanceoloid, 7–9 mm. |
Seeds | 15–20, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1.5–2 mm, reticulate and papillate. |
2n | = 26. |
Cordylanthus parviflorus |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. |
Habitat | Dry, rocky slopes, sagebrush scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands, Joshua tree woodlands. |
Elevation | 700–2200 m. (2300–7200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; ID; NV; UT
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Discussion | Cordylanthus parviflorus is similar to C. laxiflorus, which also has unequal corolla lips. It can be distinguished from C. laxiflorus by its pink to purple (versus yellow) corollas and stamens with two pollen sacs. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 673. |
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus |
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Synonyms | Adenostegia parviflora, C. glandulosus |
Name authority | (Ferris) Wiggins: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 174. (1933) |
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