Biology:Cordylanthus eremicus

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Cordylanthus eremicus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Orobanchaceae
Genus: Cordylanthus
Species:
C. eremicus
Binomial name
Cordylanthus eremicus
(Coville & C.V.Morton) Munz

Cordylanthus eremicus is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common name desert bird's beak.

It is endemic to California , where it is known from dry mountainous habitat in the San Bernardino Mountains, the mountains of the Mojave Desert region, and the Kern Plateau in the southern Sierra Nevada.

It is a reddish or yellowish green woolly annual with linear, sometimes threadlike, leaves. The inflorescence is a spike of flowers, each with a multicolored corolla and a white hairy pouch.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5170097 entry