General:
Annual herb; stems erect, 10-50 cm tall, slender, simple or branched above, smooth except short-hairy in the inflorescence, straw-coloured.
Leaves:
Alternate, unstalked, linear-lanceolate, 2-8 cm long, pinnately divided into 5 to 9 linear lobes, smooth.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a dense, ultimately elongate, prominently bracted, terminal spike 5-20 cm long, the bracts 8-18 mm long, differing gradually from the leaves, divided into 3 to 5 lanceolate lobes; corollas whitish often fading pinkish, much exserted, densely short-hairy, 12-22 mm long, tubular, club-shaped, 2-lipped, the upper lip beaked, slightly longer than the lower lip, the lower lip swollen, deeply 3-pouched, minutely 3-toothed, the margins purple-dotted; calyces tubular, 5-10 mm long, hairy, 4-lobed; stamens 4, included within the corolla.
Fruits:
Capsules, ellipsoid, 6-9 mm long; seeds numerous, about 1 mm long, with a tight-fitting, netted coat.
Notes:
This disjunct species occurs 425 km N of the nearest population in Lane Co., OR. Most authors (e.g., Keck 1927, Taylor and MacBryde 1977, Scoggan 1979) have treated this as an introduced species although there is no evidence of introduction at the collection sites.
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Origin Status | Provincial Status | BC List (Red Blue List) | COSEWIC |
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Native | S1 | Red | E (Nov 2011) |
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Orthocarpus faucibarbatus
Orthocarpus faucibarbatus subsp. albidus D.D. Keck
Orthocarpus faucibarbatus var. albidus (D.D. Keck) J.T. Howell
In B.C., Triphysaria pusilla and Orthocarpus tenuis grow in similar habitat as Triphysaria veriscolor ssp. veriscolor. T. pusilla is smaller than T. veriscolor ssp. veriscolor and has more highly dissected leaves. O. tenuis has narrow corollas, whereas T. veriscolor ssp. veriscolor has club-shaped corollas.
Source: British Columbia Conservation Data Centre |
1. Stamens slightly exserted from the upper lip; corollas 4-6 mm long...............Triphysaria pusilla
1. Stamens not exserted from the upper lip; corollas 12-22 mm long....................Triphysaria versicolor |