Habit: Annual, glabrous to hairy; roots fibrous.
Stem: generally erect, 2--40 cm, 4-angled, branched or not.
Leaf: cauline, widely linear to ovate, serrate, sessile.
Inflorescence: flowers terminal, bracts 2--4, linear, lanceolate, oblanceolate, to ovate.
Flower: not inverted, pedicelled or not; sepals 0.5--3 × ovary, linear to narrowly triangular; corolla cylindric, funnel-, or bell-shaped, throat white, lobes linear to widely ovate, white to deep purple; ovary inferior, obconic or cylindric, narrowed near middle or not.
Fruit: open at top irregularly by tears where style falls off, within persistent sepals.
Seed: +- 1 mm, angular-fusiform.
Species In Genus: 4 species: western North America.
Etymology: (Greek:
Githago -like)
Note: Width in length-to-width ratios of corollas (or ovaries) measured at tube (or ovary) tops.
Jepson eFlora Author: Nancy R. Morin
Reference: Morin 1983 Syst Bot 8:436--468
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Githopsis
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