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slender bird's beak, sticky birdbeak, viscid bird's beak

Stems

densely glandular-puberulent and pilose.

Leaves

green to gray-green, 3-lobed, lobes linear.

Inflorescences

loosely 1–3-flowered;

bracts gray-green, 3-lobed, pilose with long hairs.

Flowers

corolla 10–18 mm.

2n

= 28.

Cordylanthus tenuis subsp. viscidus

Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Serpentine in pine woodlands.
Elevation 200–2000 m. (700–6600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 677.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus > Cordylanthus tenuis
Sibling taxa
C. tenuis subsp. barbatus, C. tenuis subsp. brunneus, C. tenuis subsp. pallescens, C. tenuis subsp. tenuis
Synonyms Adenostegia viscida, C. viscidus
Name authority (Howell) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 10: 56. (1986)
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