Aphyllon californicum

Family: Orobanchaceae · Type: perennial · Native

California broomrape is a native perennial parasitic plant found in California's varied landscapes at elevations ranging from low to moderate heights. Flowering from spring to summer, this plant produces pale to pink-purple flowers with white to pink petals marked by darker veins, the corolla lips 10 to 14 millimeters long and widely flaring. Growing 4 to 35 centimeters tall with slender to stout stems that branch proximally or throughout, the plant appears glandular-puberulent and pale to pink-purple above ground. Its flowers are generally crowded, with calyxes 12 to 20 millimeters long in pale to pink tones and linear-triangular lobes. The plant features woolly anthers and distinctive stigma lobes with triangular shapes and recurved margins.

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.