Triphysaria versicolor |
Triphysaria eriantha |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Pedicels | 1–2 mm, glabrous. |
0.3–0.5 mm, glabrous. |
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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. |
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Capsules | 6–9(–10) × 3.5–5 mm, glabrous. |
4–8 × 2.5–4.5 mm, glabrous. |
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Seeds | 15–60, ovoid, 0.6–1 mm. |
30–100, ovoid, 0.5–1 mm. |
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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. |
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Triphysaria versicolor |
Triphysaria eriantha |
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Distribution |
CA; OR; BC
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 687. | FNA vol. 17, p. 685. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria | Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria | ||||||||
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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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