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Cordylanthus pilosus
Hairy bird's-beak is a hemiparasitic annual herb native to northern California foothills and woodlands, often on serpentine soils. It is grown mainly in native plant gardens and restoration, and needs open, sunny conditions and well-drained soil.
Cordylanthus pilosus is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common name hairy bird's beak. It is endemic to the mountain ranges and foothills of northern California, where it grows in woodland and chaparral habitat, often on serpentine soils. There are three subspecies, each mainly limited to a different section of mountains. In general this annual herb is erect and branching, reaching a maximum height anywhere between 20 centimeters and 1.2 meters. It is purple-tinted gray-green in color and usually quite hairy in texture, the hairs sometimes associated with sticky glands. The branches have sparse tufts of small linear leaves. The flowers of the inflorescence have bracts which may be linear in shape or lobed, each lobe knobby or notched.
Yakima bird's-beak · Desert bird's-beak · Nevin's bird's-beak · Mt. Diablo bird's-beak · Purple 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 pilosus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
