Chloropyron molle

(A. Gray) A. Heller

Muhlenbergia 3: 134. 1907.

EndemicConservation concern
Basionym: Cordylanthus mollis A. Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 384. 1868
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 668. Mentioned on page 666, 669.

Stems erect or spreading, 10–40 cm, puberulent or hispid, hairs glandular and eglandular. Leaf blades narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 5–30 × 2–10 mm, margins entire or 7-lobed, lateral veins conspicuous. Spikes 2–15 cm; bracts sometimes purple distally, lanceolate to ovate, 15–25 mm, margins pinnately 3–7-lobed. Flowers: calyx 15–20 mm; corolla greenish white, white, or pale yellow, 15–20 mm, lobes 5–7 mm, often marked with dark red (especially toward base); stamens 2, each with 2 pollen sacs; staminodes 2. Capsules narrowly ovoid, 6–10 mm. Seeds 20–30, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1–3 mm, without abaxial crest.

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

The coastal and inland subspecies intergrade.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Branches from distal to base; seeds 2–3 mm; corolla tubes densely tomentose. Chloropyron molle subsp. molle
1 Branches from near base; seeds 1–1.5 mm; corolla tubes sparsely tomentose. Chloropyron molle subsp. hispidum