Flora of North America species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Orobanche californica subsp. grayana
Photo is of parent taxon
Habit Plants usually branched proximally, 4–10 cm, portion proximal to inflorescence 1–3(–4) cm, slender.
Inflorescences

corymbs, sometimes subcorymbose racemes, 3–6 cm;

bracts pallid to pinkish tinged, drying brown.
Pedicels

5–20 mm.
Corollas

pallid to pinkish or pale lavender, often with lavender veins, (25–)28–33 mm;

tube slender, abruptly widening toward throat;

throat 8–10 mm wide at base of lobes;

lips 10–12 mm, abaxial lobes lanceolate to lanceolate-subulate, 2–3 mm wide, apex acute, adaxial lobes oblong-ovate, apex narrowly rounded, shallowly retuse, or erosulate.
Calyces

11–15 mm, lobes pallid, sometimes purplish, linear-subulate, (7–)9–13(–16) mm.
2n

= 48.

Orobanche californica subsp. grayana
Phenology Flowering (Jun–)Aug–Sep.
Habitat Moist meadows and stream margins.
Elevation (50–)300–2100 m. ((200–)1000–6900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Subspecies grayana is distributed in the Cascade-Sierra Nevada ranges, Coast Ranges (central California and southern Oregon), and mountains of the Columbia Plateau in Oregon, from Klickitat County, Washington, south to Tuolumne County, California. It is rare throughout the range, possibly locally extirpated in portions of the range in Oregon.

The hosts are primarily species of Aster and Erigeron and occasionally Grindelia. Other reported non-Asteraceae hosts are unlikely.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 480.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Orobanche > Orobanche californica
Sibling taxa
O. californica subsp. californica, O. californica subsp. condensa, O. californica subsp. feudgei, O. californica subsp. grandis, O. californica subsp. jepsonii
Synonyms O. grayana, Aphyllon californicum subsp. grayanum, Myzorrhiza grayana
Name authority (Beck) Heckard: Madroño 22: 54. (1973)
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the online version of the Flora of North America, who have made most of their content available via a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in Flora of North America yet, or it's listed under a synonym. And please note that Flora of North America is still missing several plant families, including Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, and Polemoniaceae.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America, OregonFlora

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers