Cordylanthus tenuis |
Cordylanthus parviflorus |
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slender bird's-beak, sticky birdbeak |
purple bird's-beak, small-flower bird's-beak, sticky bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect to ascending, 20–80(–120) cm, glabrous or sparsely glandular-puberulent, puberulent, and/or pilose. |
erect to ascending, 20–60 cm, hirsute and densely glandular-pubescent. |
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Leaves | 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. |
glandular-pubescent and hirsute; proximal 10–30 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1 mm wide; distal 5–20 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
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Inflorescences | 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. |
spikes, 2-flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts 1(or 2), 5–15 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes sometimes purplish distally, linear-lanceolate. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire or toothed. |
bracteoles 10–12 mm, margins entire. |
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Flowers | 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. |
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. |
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Capsules | narrowly ovoid, 5–10 mm. |
oblong-lanceoloid, 7–9 mm. |
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Seeds | 6–16, dark brown, ovoid to rhomboid, 1.5–2.5 mm, striate. |
15–20, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1.5–2 mm, reticulate and papillate. |
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2n | = 26. |
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Cordylanthus tenuis |
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 |
CA; OR
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AZ; CA; ID; NV; UT
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Discussion | Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 676. | FNA vol. 17, p. 673. | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Adenostegia tenuis | Adenostegia parviflora, C. glandulosus | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 383. (1868) | (Ferris) Wiggins: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 174. (1933) | ||||||||||||||||
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