Cordylanthus ramosus |
Cordylanthus tenuis |
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bushy bird's-beak, bushy birdbeak |
slender bird's-beak, sticky birdbeak |
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Stems | erect, 10–30(–90) cm, puberulent, sometimes pilose. |
erect to ascending, 20–80(–120) cm, glabrous or sparsely glandular-puberulent, puberulent, and/or pilose. |
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Leaves | puberulent; proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3–5-lobed, lobes 1–2 mm wide; distal 10–15 × 0.5–1 mm, margins entire. |
puberulent, often pilose, or glabrous; proximal 20–60 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes 0.5–1 mm wide; distal 10–40 × 0.3–2 mm, margins entire. |
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Inflorescences | capitate spikes, 3–7-flowered; bracts 1–7, 10–20 mm, margins 5–7-lobed, lobes green, sometimes purple distally, filiform. |
spikes, 2–7-flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts 1–4, 5–20 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes green or purple distally, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, apex rounded. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire. |
bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire or toothed. |
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Flowers | calyx 15–20 mm, tube 0 mm, apex entire or 2-fid, cleft 0–1 mm; corolla pale yellow, spotted and streaked with purple, 10–20 mm, throat 4–6 mm diam., abaxial lip 3–5 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy distally, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, unequal. |
calyx 10–20 mm, tube 0 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 1 mm; corolla pale yellow, marked with purple along veins and galea, 10–20 mm, throat 6–8 mm diam., abaxial lip 4–6 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-lanceoloid, 8–10 mm. |
narrowly ovoid, 5–10 mm. |
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Seeds | 10–20, light brown, narrowly ovate, 1.5–2 mm, reticulate. |
6–16, dark brown, ovoid to rhomboid, 1.5–2.5 mm, striate. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Cordylanthus ramosus |
Cordylanthus tenuis |
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Phenology | Flowering late Jun–Aug. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Rocky, alkaline soils, sagebrush scrub. | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 400–2900 m. (1300–9500 ft.) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WY
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 675. | FNA vol. 17, p. 676. | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Adenostegia ciliosa, A. ramosa, C. ramosus var. puberulus, C. ramosus subsp. setosus | Adenostegia tenuis | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Nuttall ex Bentham: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 10: 597. (1846) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 383. (1868) | ||||||||||||||||
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