Description
Key Characters:
Growth Form:
Erect, pubescent annual herbs.
Stems:
Stems erect, 1–5(–7) dm long, usually unbranched, glandular pubescent.
Roots:
Leaves:
Leaves simple.
Opposite.
Blades oblong to lanceolate, 1–4.5 cm long, 0.3–1.5 cm wide, scabrous.
Base sessile.
Margins coarsely serrate.
Petioles absent.
Stipules absent.
Flowers:
Flowers in terminal, leafy spikes.
Flowers bisexual (perfect).
Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed, the lobes lanceolate; 10–16 mm long, the teeth linear–lanceolate, about as long as tube.
Corolla yellow, rarely white, bilabiate, upper lip hooded, lower lip with a 2–ridged palate, the lobes longer than the hood, 16–24 mm long, caducous.
Stamens 4, in 2 pairs; anthers pubescent.
Ovary superior; stigma capitate.
Fruit:
Capsules oblong; 7–9 mm long; pubescent with brownish hairs.
Seeds ca. 0.3–0.4 mm long.
Ploidy:
2n = 40; 48
Habitat:
Pastures.
Elevation Range:
1,450–1,520 m.