Cordylanthus eremicus
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Cordylanthus eremicus is a species of flowering plant in the broomrape family
known by the common name desert bird's beak.
It is endemic to California
, where it is known from dry mountainous habitat in the San Bernardino Mountains
, the mountains of the Mojave Desert
region, and the Kern Plateau in the southern Sierra Nevada.
It is a reddish or yellowish green woolly annual with linear, sometimes threadlike, leaves. The inflorescence
is a spike of flowers, each with a multicolored corolla and a white hairy pouch.
Orobanchaceae
Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family, is a family of flowering plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera were formerly included in the family Scrophulariaceae sensu lato...
known by the common name desert bird's beak.
It is endemic to California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, where it is known from dry mountainous habitat in the San Bernardino Mountains
San Bernardino Mountains
The San Bernardino Mountains are a short transverse mountain range north and east of San Bernardino in Southern California in the United States. The mountains run for approximately 60 miles east-west on the southern edge of the Mojave Desert in southwestern San Bernardino County, north of the...
, the mountains of the Mojave Desert
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and smaller parts of central California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona, in the United States...
region, and the Kern Plateau in the southern Sierra Nevada.
It is a reddish or yellowish green woolly annual with linear, sometimes threadlike, leaves. The inflorescence
Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...
is a spike of flowers, each with a multicolored corolla and a white hairy pouch.