Triphysaria eriantha

Butter-and-eggs, johnny-tuck, Johnny-Tuck

Family: Orobanchaceae · Type: annual · Native

Butter-and-eggs is a California native annual found in open grasslands and meadows. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces yellow to white flowers that fade to rose-pink, with a distinctive dark purple beak and delicate pouches 3 to 4 millimeters deep. Growing 10 to 35 centimeters tall with a slightly purple stem covered in fine hairs, the plant has a branching, delicate form. Its leaves are 10 to 50 millimeters long, intricately divided into 3 to 7 lobes, giving the plant a feathery, intricate appearance. The fruit is an oblong capsule 5 to 8 millimeters long, containing 30 to 50 dark brown seeds.

California counties: Humboldt, Placer, Calaveras, Santa Clara, Fresno, San Luis Obispo, Tulare, Solano, Marin, Monterey, Shasta, Lake, Mariposa, Contra Costa, Yuba, El Dorado, Colusa, Amador, Butte, Sacramento, Tuolumne, Tehama, Sonoma, Glenn, Merced, Sutter, Nevada, Napa, Del Norte, Santa Barbara, Stanislaus, San Diego, San Mateo, Alameda, San Joaquin, Modoc, Mendocino, Yolo, Madera, Santa Cruz, Kern

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