Cordylanthus pringlei |
Cordylanthus wrightii |
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Pringle's bird's-beak |
Wright's bird's beak |
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Stems | erect or ascending, 30–120(–150) cm, glabrous or puberulent. |
erect or ascending, 20–90 cm, puberulent and glandular-puberulent or scabrous, often glabrate. |
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Leaves | puberulent or glabrous; proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1–2 mm wide; distal 5–20 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
puberulent or glandular-puberulent, often glabrescent; proximal 20–35 mm, margins 3–7 lobed, lobes 0.5–1.5 mm wide; distal 10–20 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed. |
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Inflorescences | capitate spikes, 2–4-flowered, 15–20 mm; bracts 1–3, flabelliform, 5–8 mm, margins 3–7-lobed, lobes green, narrowly ovate. |
capitate spikes, 2–12-flowered, 20–40 mm; bracts 2–10, green or purple distally, 15–30 mm, margins (4 or)5–9-lobed, lobes linear. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 8–10 mm, margins entire. |
bracteoles 15–30 mm, margins toothed or lobed. |
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Flowers | 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. |
calyx lanceolate, 20–25 mm, tube 3–4 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 1–2 mm; corolla bright or pale yellow or lavender-pink with purple markings, 20–30 mm, throat 6–8 mm diam., abaxial lip 5–8 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, equal. |
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Capsules | oblong-ovoid, 5–8 mm. |
oblong, 10–15 mm. |
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Seeds | 4–6, dark brown, ovoid to narrowly reniform, 2.5–3 mm, striate. |
15–20, brown, oblong-ovoid, 2–2.5 mm, reticulate. |
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2n | = 28. |
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Cordylanthus pringlei |
Cordylanthus wrightii |
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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 |
AZ; CO; NM; TX; UT; n Mexico
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Discussion | 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.) |
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 674. | FNA vol. 17, p. 678. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Adenostegia wrightii | |||||||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 94. (1883) | A. Gray: in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 120. (1859) | ||||||||
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