Habit: Annual, green, glandular-hairy.
Stem: erect, generally simple.
Leaf: opposite, at least distally, sessile, toothed.
Inflorescence: raceme, spike-like, bracted.
Flower: calyx 4-lobed; corolla 2-lipped, yellow or upper lip rose or pale purple and lower lip white, upper lip forming a hood, distally notched, lower lip > upper, 3-lobed, with 2 ridges; stamens 4, in 2 pairs, included in corolla hood, anthers hairy, awned at base; stigma knob-like, sometimes 2-lobed, included in upper corolla lip.
Fruit: +- ovoid, loculicidal capsule.
Seed: many, small, ridged or smooth.
Species In Genus: 2 species: Europe, Mediterranean, western Asia.
Etymology: (C.A.L. Bellardi, Italian botany professor, 1740--1826)
Jepson eFlora Author: Margriet Wetherwax and David J. Keil
Reference: Uribe-Convers & Tank 2016 Syst Bot 41:672--684
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Bellardia
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