Habit: Annual, perennial herb (in California).
Stem: 1--many; base occasionally woody.
Leaf: generally cauline, simple, entire to lobed [toothed].
Inflorescence: cyme, clustered, +- dense, open in age; terminal or axillary.
Flower: calyx lobes 5--15, coiled inward, plumose in age, spreading, persistent in fruit; corolla +- funnel-shaped, lobes +- unequal, spreading, tube long, slender, long-spurred; stamen 1.
Fruit: +- compressed; adaxial surface 1-veined, abaxial surface 3-veined.
Species In Genus: 12 species: Mediterranean.
Etymology: (Greek: spurred flower)
Jepson eFlora Author: Abigail J. Moore & Lauramay T. Dempster
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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