Keckiella antirrhinoides
Keckiella lemmonii
chaparral beard tongue, snapdragon penstemon
bush penstemon, Lemmon's beardtongue, Lemmon's keckiella
spreading to erect, 6–25 dm, canescent, rarely glabrous when young.
erect, virgate with age, 5–15 dm, glabrous when young, glaucous.
opposite, on short shoots as axillary clusters on older stems;
blade oblanceolate or lanceolate to narrowly obovate or ovate, 5–20 mm, margins entire or 2-toothed, sometimes relatively small.
opposite;
blade lanceolate to ovate, 10–65 mm, margins usually 2–12-toothed.
panicles, finely short-hairy and sparsely glandular.
panicles, glandular-hairy.
calyx 3–9 mm, lobes lanceolate to ovate;
corolla yellow drying blackish, 15–23 mm, tube plus distinct throat 6–10 mm, shorter than adaxial lip, adaxial lip 8–15 mm;
pollen sacs 1.1–1.8 mm;
staminode densely yellow-hairy, exserted.
calyx 3.5–6.7 mm, lobes lanceolate;
corolla purplish brown, abaxial lip pale yellow, brown-purple lined, 11–15 mm, tube plus distinct throat 5.5–9.5 mm, longer than adaxial lip, adaxial lip 2.6–6 mm;
pollen sacs 0.6–0.9 mm;
staminode densely yellow-hairy, exserted.
= 16.
Keckiella antirrhinoides
Keckiella lemmonii
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Keckiella lemmonii is essentially restricted to the mountains of northern California from the North Coast Ranges through the Klamath Mountains and the northern high Sierra Nevada.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Calyces 3–6 mm, lobes widely ovate, apices obtuse to acute; plants finely hairy; pollen sacs 1.4–1.8 mm. | var. antirrhinoides |
1. Calyces 5.5–9 mm, lobes lanceolate, apices acute to acuminate; plants canescent; pollen sacs 1.1–1.5 mm. | var. microphylla |
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