Triphysaria micrantha |
Triphysaria pusilla |
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little butter 'n' eggs, purple-beak owl's-clover |
dwarf false owl-clover, dwarf owl's-clover, dwarf owl's-clover or johnny-tuck, dwarf owl-clover, dwarf triphysaria, little owl's clover |
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Stems | simple or with 1–4 ascending branches proximally, (3.5–)5–15(–19) cm, glabrous proximally, pubescent to glandular-pubescent distally. |
simple or with 1–6 decumbent to ascending branches proximally, (2–)4–15(–30) cm, glabrous proximally, retrorsely short-strigose distally. |
Leaves | pubescent to glandular-pubescent; proximal cauline: blade filiform to linear, (4–)5–25 mm; cauline: blade ± elliptic to obovate, 10–25 mm, base sessile, margins usually pinnatifid, lateral lobes 2–6(or 7). |
puberulent; proximal cauline: blade linear, 5–30 mm; cauline: blade ± ovate to obovate, 5–30 mm, base sessile, margins pinnatifid, rarely bipinnatifid, lateral lobes 2–8, threadlike. |
Pedicels | 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous, rarely sparsely puberulent. |
0.3–1 mm, glabrous. |
Flowers | calyx 6–7 mm, pubescent to glandular-pubescent, tube (2–)3–5 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 1–3 × 0.8–1.3 mm; corolla yellow, rarely yellow and white, 10–12 mm, hairy, beak dark purple, rarely yellow, not hooked, abaxial lobes spreading, 1.5–2 mm, throat abruptly indented, forming a fold under abaxial corolla lip, adaxial lobes projecting; stamens included, pollen sac yellow, 1–1.3 mm, glabrous, dehiscing longitudinally; style 6–9 mm, glabrous; stigma 2-lobed. |
calyx (3–)5–7 mm, puberulent, tube 2–3 mm, lobes triangular to narrowly lanceolate, (1.5–)2–3.5 × 1.5–2 mm; corolla dark purple, rarely yellow, 4–7 mm, glabrate, beak dark purple, hooked, abaxial lobes spreading, 0.5–1 mm, throat not abruptly indented, not forming a fold under abaxial corolla lip, adaxial lobes projecting; stamens included, pollen sac yellow, 0.7–0.8 mm, glabrous, dehiscing longitudinally; style 2.5–5 mm, glabrous; stigma filiform or subcapitate. |
Capsules | 3–5.5 × 3–4 mm, glabrous. |
3.5–5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous. |
Seeds | (30–)40–80, ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.8–1 mm. |
10–30, ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.7–1.2 mm. |
Spikelike | racemes interrupted, open distally, 0.5–11 cm; peduncle absent; bracts pinnatifid, ± obovate, 7–13(–15) mm, lateral lobes 2–4. |
racemes interrupted, open distally, (1.5–)2.5–15 cm; peduncle absent; bracts pinnatifid, rarely bipinnatifid, ± obovate, 5–19 mm, lateral lobes 2–6(–10), threadlike. |
2n | = 22. |
= 22. |
Triphysaria micrantha |
Triphysaria pusilla |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Apr. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Grasslands, gravelly hilltops, oak woodlands. | Grasslands, lawns, pastures, roadsides, edges of vernal pools, woodlands. |
Elevation | 50–800 m. (200–2600 ft.) | 0–1400 m. (0–4600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR; WA; BC [Introduced in Asia (China)]
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Discussion | Triphysaria micrantha is known from central California from the coast to the Sierra Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 686. | FNA vol. 17, p. 687. |
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria | Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria |
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Synonyms | Orthocarpus micranthus, O. erianthus var. micranthus | Orthocarpus pusillus, O. chinensis |
Name authority | (Greene ex A. Heller) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. 16: 660. (1991) | (Bentham) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. 16: 661. (1991) |
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