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

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slender bird's beak

Stems

densely glandular-puberulent and pilose.

puberulent to glandular-pubescent proximally.

Leaves

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

green, linear, entire.

Inflorescences

loosely 1–3-flowered;

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

1–3-flowered;

bracts green, entire, hirsute with a few long hairs near margins.

Flowers

corolla 10–18 mm.

corolla 10–20 mm.

2n

= 28.

Cordylanthus tenuis subsp. viscidus

Cordylanthus tenuis subsp. tenuis

Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep. Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Serpentine in pine woodlands. Openings in conifer woodlands.
Elevation 200–2000 m. (700–6600 ft.) 300–2600 m. (1000–8500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Subspecies tenuis grows in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada with a disjunct population in the Klamath Range. Some plants from the central Klamath Range are similar to subsp. viscidus, which has three-lobed inflorescence bracts.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 677. FNA vol. 17, p. 677.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus > Cordylanthus tenuis Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus > Cordylanthus tenuis
Sibling taxa
C. tenuis subsp. barbatus, C. tenuis subsp. brunneus, C. tenuis subsp. pallescens, C. tenuis subsp. tenuis
C. tenuis subsp. barbatus, C. tenuis subsp. brunneus, C. tenuis subsp. pallescens, C. tenuis subsp. viscidus
Synonyms Adenostegia viscida, C. viscidus C. bolanderi, C. pilosus subsp. bolanderi, C. pilosus var. bolanderi
Name authority (Howell) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 10: 56. (1986) unknown
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