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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

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

Stems

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

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

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

1–2 mm, glabrous.

0.3–0.5 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.

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

6–9(–10) × 3.5–5 mm, glabrous.

4–8 × 2.5–4.5 mm, glabrous.

Seeds

15–60, ovoid, 0.6–1 mm.

30–100, ovoid, 0.5–1 mm.

Spikelike

racemes interrupted, dense distally, 2–30 cm;

peduncle absent;

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

racemes interrupted, dense distally, 1–24 cm;

peduncle absent;

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

Triphysaria versicolor

Triphysaria eriantha

Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; BC
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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.)

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
1. Corollas yellow, rarely yellow and white.
subsp. eriantha
1. Corollas white, fading to rose pink.
subsp. rosea
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 687. FNA vol. 17, p. 685.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria
Sibling taxa
T. eriantha, T. floribunda, T. micrantha, T. pusilla
T. floribunda, T. micrantha, T. pusilla, T. versicolor
Subordinate taxa
T. versicolor subsp. faucibarbata, T. versicolor subsp. versicolor
T. eriantha subsp. eriantha, T. eriantha subsp. rosea
Synonyms Orthocarpus erianthus var. versicolor, O. versicolor Orthocarpus erianthus
Name authority Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 2: 52. (1836) (Bentham) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. 16: 660. (1991)
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