Cordylanthus tenuis subsp. viscidus

Family: Orobanchaceae · Type: annual · Native

Viscid bird's beak is a California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, and northern Sierra Nevada in open yellow-pine forest on serpentine at elevations of 200 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces small white to pale yellow flowers in loose clusters of one to three blossoms. Growing with stems that are densely glandular-sticky and covered in long soft hairs, it reaches heights of 10 to 30 centimeters. Its leaves are slender and linear, providing a delicate texture to the plant's overall appearance. The flower bracts are distinctively three-lobed, with inner bract hairs less than one millimeter long.

Habitat: Open yellow-pine forest on serpentine

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 200-2000 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaR, n SN, MP

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