Species
Orthocarpus cuspidatus (Toothed owl's clover)
Orthocarpus cuspidatus. Photo: (c) Tom Hilton, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Orthocarpus cuspidatus is a species of flowering plant in the broomrape family known by the common names Copeland’s owl’s clover, Siskiyou Mountains orthocarpus, and toothed owl’s-clover. It is native to mountain and plateau habitat in Oregon, California, and Nevada. It is an annual herb producing a slender, glandular, hairy, purple-green stem up to about 40 centimeters tall. The narrow leaves are up to 5 centimeters long, the upper ones deeply divided into three linear lobes. The…
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Order: Lamiales (Mints, plantains, olives, and allies)
- Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
- Tribe: Pedicularideae
- Genus: Orthocarpus (Owl's-clovers)
- Species: Orthocarpus cuspidatus (Toothed owl's clover)
- Genus: Orthocarpus (Owl's-clovers)
- Tribe: Pedicularideae
- Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
- Order: Lamiales (Mints, plantains, olives, and allies)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
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