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Bird's-beaks
Cordylanthus
Cordylanthus is a genus of plants in the broomrape family native to western North America. They are known commonly as bird's beaks. Like other broomrape relatives, bird's beaks are root parasites which insert haustoria into the roots of host plants to obtain nutrients. These are spare, weedy-looking annual plants with long branching erect stems and little foliage. Many bear bird's-beak-shaped flowers in shades of pink or purple.
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Stiffbranch Bird's Beak
speciesCordylanthus rigidus
hairy bird's beak
speciesCordylanthus pilosus
slender bird's beak
speciesCordylanthus tenuis
Wright's Bird's Beak
speciesCordylanthus wrightii
King's Bird's-beak
speciesCordylanthus kingii
Nevin's Bird's-beak
speciesCordylanthus nevinii
Bushy Bird's-beak
speciesCordylanthus ramosus
small-flowered bird's-beak
speciesCordylanthus parviflorus
yakima bird's-beak
speciesCordylanthus capitatus
Mount Diablo bird's-beak
speciesCordylanthus nidularius
Desert Bird's Beak
speciesCordylanthus eremicus
Nodding Bird's-beak
speciesCordylanthus laxiflorus
Pringle's Bird's-beak
speciesCordylanthus pringlei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57273.