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bearded false owl-clover, bearded owl-clover, dwarf owl-clover, smooth owl's-clover, smooth triphysaria, yellow owl's clover, yellow-beak owl's-clover

Stems

simple or with 1–20 ascending branches, 5–60(–80) cm, glabrous proximally, sparsely pubescent distally.

Leaves

glabrous or sparsely pubescent;

proximal cauline: blade linear, 3–30(–80) mm;

cauline: blade ± ovate or obovate, 15–90 mm, base sessile, margins pinnatifid, rarely bipinnatifid, lateral lobes 3–9.

Pedicels

1–2 mm, glabrous.

Flowers

calyx 5–11 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, tube 4–8 mm, lobes narrowly triangular, 1.5–5 × 1–2 mm;

corolla yellow, rarely yellow and white, or white, fading to rose pink, 12–25(–27) mm, densely short-hairy, beak ± yellow, white, or rose pink, not hooked, abaxial lobes spreading, 2–4 mm, throat abruptly indented, forming a fold under abaxial corolla lip, adaxial lobes projecting;

stamens included, pollen sac yellow, 1.7–3 mm, glabrous, dehiscing longitudinally;

style 10–20 mm, glabrous;

stigma capitate.

Capsules

6–9(–10) × 3.5–5 mm, glabrous.

Seeds

15–60, ovoid, 0.6–1 mm.

Spikelike

racemes interrupted, dense distally, 2–30 cm;

peduncle absent;

bracts pinnatifid, ± ovate or obovate, 6–22 mm, lateral lobes 2–7.

Triphysaria versicolor

Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; BC
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

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

Key
1. Corollas white, fading to rose pink, beaks white or rose pink.
subsp. versicolor
1. Corollas yellow, rarely yellow with white, beaks yellow or white.
subsp. faucibarbata
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 687.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria
Sibling taxa
T. eriantha, T. floribunda, T. micrantha, T. pusilla
Subordinate taxa
T. versicolor subsp. faucibarbata, T. versicolor subsp. versicolor
Synonyms Orthocarpus erianthus var. versicolor, O. versicolor
Name authority Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 2: 52. (1836)
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