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

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johnny-tuck, pink butter 'n' eggs

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.

corolla white, fading to rose pink.

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.

2n

= 22.

Triphysaria eriantha

Triphysaria eriantha subsp. rosea

Phenology Flowering Mar–Jun.
Habitat Coastal grassy fields, bluffs, roadsides, dunes.
Elevation 0–400 m. (0–1300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

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

While most populations of subsp. rosea occur on the coast or coastal bluffs, it is known also from sites about 15 miles inland.

(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. FNA vol. 17, p. 686.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria > Triphysaria eriantha
Sibling taxa
T. floribunda, T. micrantha, T. pusilla, T. versicolor
T. eriantha subsp. eriantha
Subordinate taxa
T. eriantha subsp. eriantha, T. eriantha subsp. rosea
Synonyms Orthocarpus erianthus Orthocarpus erianthus var. roseus
Name authority (Bentham) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. 16: 660. (1991) (A. Gray) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. 16: 660. (1991)
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