Parentucellia latifolia

Broadleaf glandweed

Family: Orobanchaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Broadleaf glandweed is a naturalized annual found in northern Central Coast bioregion in grassy areas and roadsides at elevations below 220 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces red-purple flowers with white-tipped lobes, 8 to 18 millimeters long, arranged in spike-like racemes with deeply lobed bracts. Growing with erect, sometimes purple-tinged green stems less than 30 centimeters tall and covered in sticky hairs, the plant has a distinctively hairy appearance. Its generally opposite leaves are sessile, 4 to 12 millimeters long, triangular-lanceolate with dentate margins often tinged purple. The fruit is approximately cylindrical, nearly equal in length to the calyx, containing many minute, smooth seeds.

Habitat: Locally common, grassy areas, roadsides

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: < 220 m

Bioregions: n CCo

California counties: Marin, Sonoma

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