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butter 'n' eggs, butter-and-eggs, johnny-tuck, johnny-tuck owl-clover

Stems

simple or with 1–10 ascending branches proximally, 2–37 cm, glabrous proximally, puberulent to glandular-puberulent distally.

Leaves

puberulent to glandular-puberulent;

proximal cauline: blade linear, 5–25 mm;

cauline: blade ± ovate or obovate, 8–50 mm, base sessile, margins pinnatifid, rarely bipinnatifid, lateral lobes 2–11.

Pedicels

0.3–0.5 mm, glabrous.

Flowers

calyx 6–13 mm, puberulent to glandular-puberulent, tube 4–7 mm, lobes triangular to narrowly lanceolate, 1–4 × 1–1.5 mm;

corolla yellow, rarely yellow and white, or white, fading to rose pink, 10–25 mm, densely hairy, beak dark purple, not hooked, abaxial lobes spreading, 2–5 mm, throat abruptly indented, forming a fold under abaxial corolla lip, adaxial lobes projecting;

stamens included, pollen sac yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous, dehiscing longitudinally;

style 12–22 mm, glabrous;

stigma capitate.

Capsules

4–8 × 2.5–4.5 mm, glabrous.

Seeds

30–100, ovoid, 0.5–1 mm.

Spikelike

racemes interrupted, dense distally, 1–24 cm;

peduncle absent;

bracts pinnatifid, rarely bipinnatifid, ± ovate, 2–30 mm, lateral lobes 2–8.

Triphysaria eriantha

Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

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

Key
1. Corollas yellow, rarely yellow and white.
subsp. eriantha
1. Corollas white, fading to rose pink.
subsp. rosea
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 685.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria
Sibling taxa
T. floribunda, T. micrantha, T. pusilla, T. versicolor
Subordinate taxa
T. eriantha subsp. eriantha, T. eriantha subsp. rosea
Synonyms Orthocarpus erianthus
Name authority (Bentham) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. 16: 660. (1991)
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