Bellardia viscosa

Yellow glandweed

Family: Orobanchaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Conservation status: Cal-IPC Yes

Yellow glandweed is a naturalized annual found in northern California coastal regions, northern California valleys, and central California foothills in damp, grassy places at elevations generally below 650 meters. Flowering from April to October, this sticky plant produces bright yellow flowers 15 to 25 millimeters long in dense clusters. Growing with generally unbranched stems up to 110 centimeters tall, it has a distinctive glandular and sticky appearance. Its lanceolate leaves range from 20 to 50 millimeters long, with edges that are crenate to serrate. The fruit is strigose and 6 to 10 millimeters long, containing tiny seeds approximately 0.2 to 0.3 millimeters in size.

Habitat: Damp, grassy places

Bloom period: Apr--Oct

Elevation: generally < 650(1220) m

Bioregions: NCo, w KR, NCoRO, NCoRI, CaRF, n&c SNF, ScV, CCo, SnFrB, n SCoRO

California counties: Humboldt, Sonoma, Yuba, Del Norte, Mendocino, Butte, San Mateo, Sacramento, Amador, Placer, Tuolumne, Contra Costa, Nevada, Shasta, Napa, Lake, Solano, Marin

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