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Salt Marsh Bird's Beak

Chloropyron maritimum

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 87, February 75, March 78, April 97, May 94, June 69, July 59, August 61, September 77, October 79, November 101, December 78.
United States1,248
California956
Nevada177
Utah60
Oregon55
Mexico12
Baja California12

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybroomrape family · Orobanchaceae
GenusChloropyron

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Salt Marsh Bird's Beak with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.