Triphysaria versicolor |
Triphysaria micrantha |
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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 |
little butter 'n' eggs, purple-beak owl's-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 1–4 ascending branches proximally, (3.5–)5–15(–19) cm, glabrous proximally, pubescent to glandular-pubescent 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. |
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). |
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Pedicels | 1–2 mm, glabrous. |
0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous, rarely sparsely puberulent. |
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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 6–7 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. |
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Capsules | 6–9(–10) × 3.5–5 mm, glabrous. |
3–5.5 × 3–4 mm, glabrous. |
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Seeds | 15–60, ovoid, 0.6–1 mm. |
(30–)40–80, ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.8–1 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, open distally, 0.5–11 cm; peduncle absent; bracts pinnatifid, ± obovate, 7–13(–15) mm, lateral lobes 2–4. |
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2n | = 22. |
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Triphysaria versicolor |
Triphysaria micrantha |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Apr. | |||||
Habitat | Grasslands, gravelly hilltops, oak woodlands. | |||||
Elevation | 50–800 m. (200–2600 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; OR; BC
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CA
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 687. | FNA vol. 17, p. 686. | ||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria | Orobanchaceae > Triphysaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Orthocarpus erianthus var. versicolor, O. versicolor | Orthocarpus micranthus, O. erianthus var. micranthus | ||||
Name authority | Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 2: 52. (1836) | (Greene ex A. Heller) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. 16: 660. (1991) | ||||
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