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Cordylanthus parviflorus
Also called Small Flower Birdbeak, Small Flowered Bird's Beak
Cordylanthus parviflorus is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common name purple bird's beak. It is native to the western United States where it grows in several types of habitat, including the sagebrush steppe of the Great Basin. It is an annual herb, red-tinted gray-green in color, and hairy, glandular, and sticky in texture. It grows 20 to 60 centimeters tall. The inflorescence bears flowers accompanied by hairy, lobed red-green bracts. The flower is up to 2 centimeters long, made up of a dark-veined pink pouch enveloped in darker sepals.
Yakima bird's-beak · Desert bird's-beak · Nevin's bird's-beak · Mt. Diablo bird's-beak · Hairy bird's-beak · Bushy bird's beak · Stiffbranch bird's beak · Slender bird's beak · Wright's bird's beak · Bird's Beak
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cordylanthus parviflorus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
