Cordylanthus wrightii subsp. wrightii |
Cordylanthus wrightii |
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Wright's bird's beak |
Wright's bird's beak |
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Stems | puberulent to sparsely puberulent and/or glandular-puberulent. |
erect or ascending, 20–90 cm, puberulent and glandular-puberulent or scabrous, often glabrate. |
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Leaves | 3–5-lobed. |
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, 2–12-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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Spikes | 2–4-flowered, 20–30 mm; bracts 2 or 3. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 15–30 mm, margins toothed distally. |
bracteoles 15–30 mm, margins toothed or lobed. |
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Flowers | corolla bright yellow or lavender-pink with purple markings, 20–25 mm. |
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, 10–15 mm. |
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Seeds | 15–20, brown, oblong-ovoid, 2–2.5 mm, reticulate. |
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2n | = 26. |
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Cordylanthus wrightii subsp. wrightii |
Cordylanthus wrightii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry openings, pinyon-juniper woodlands, sagebrush scrub. | |||||||||
Elevation | 1600–2200 m. (5200–7200 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua) |
AZ; CO; NM; TX; UT; n Mexico
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Discussion | The inflorescence bracts of subsp. wrightii are three- to nine-lobed; northern populations tend to have three-lobed bracts; southerly populations have bracts with five to nine lobes. (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. 678. | FNA vol. 17, p. 678. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | C. wrightii var. pauciflorus | Adenostegia wrightii | ||||||||
Name authority | unknown | A. Gray: in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 120. (1859) | ||||||||
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