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Cordylanthus eremicus

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Orobanchaceae

Scientific name
  
Cordylanthus eremicus

Rank
  
Species

Order
  
Lamiales

Genus
  
Cordylanthus

Higher classification
  
Cordylanthus

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.

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Cordylanthus eremicus Wikipedia