Cordylanthus parviflorus

Small-flowered bird's-beak, Small-Flowered Bird's-Beak

Family: Orobanchaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Small-flowered bird's-beak is a rare (CNPS 2B.3) California native annual found in the eastern Desert Mountains, including New York and Providence Mountains, in dry sagebrush scrub and pinyon/juniper woodland at elevations of 700 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from August to October, this plant produces pink to lavender flowers with distinctive dark veining, emerging in loose clusters with 1 to 4 blooms. Growing 20 to 60 centimeters tall with a gray-green stem tinged with red, the plant is distinctively glandular-sticky and long-hairy. Its leaves are linear, 5 to 30 millimeters long, with zero to three slender lobes. The flower's outer bracts are 5 to 15 millimeters long, with 3 to 5 obtuse lobes that are densely glandular and ciliate.

Habitat: dry sagebrush scrub, pinyon/juniper and Joshua-tree woodland

Bloom period: Aug-Oct

Elevation: 700-2200 m

Bioregions: e DMtns (New York, Providence mtns)

California counties: San Bernardino

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