Several Rhus aromatica were growing nearby. See comments below for a more expansive list.
Several Rhus aromatica were growing nearby. See comments below for a more expansive list.
These seem like maybe purpureum/uniflorum type plants and very long calyx lobes seem like phrpureum?
Dried up plants with multiple haustorums found on Antennaria roots. Long and narrow calyx lobes gave it a very different look from the nearby fransiscanum and all of these are dry while fransiscanum are in bloom.
Appeared to be attached to a lateral root of Eriogonum. This plant was growing adjacent to another purpureum/uniflorum type type that looked to be on antennaria but I didn't dig to find out. See nearby observation of that species. This and the other Fransiscanum are actively blooming while the purpureum/uniflorum types are all fully dried up.
Found the haustorium on a long lateral root of Eripgonum (reddish brown shaggy bark on root, tacked it back almost all the way to a nearby clump) then saw some plants nestled in eriogonum mats.
Just 5 plants visible in this area this year, not like the hundreds that were here last year at this time. Flowers all open and fresh.
These seem like maybe purpureum/uniflorum type plants and long calyx lobes look more like purpureum. Dried up plants with multiple haustorums found on Antennaria roots. Long and narrow calyx lobes gave it a very different look from the nearby fransiscanum and all of these are dry while fransiscanum are in bloom.
This is one of two patches within some 50m of each other here, and an additional plant was 500m to the NNE among the fransiscanum.
Found at the base of an ancient shellmound with lots of Eriophyllum staechadifolium nearby.
Growing next to Artemisia tridentata and Eriogonum wrightii subscaposum. Some growing out of the middle of Eriogonum wrightii cushions
This broom rape was found in chaparral under, chemise, ceanothus and Mountain Mahogany.
Fern Ridge RNA, growing in seasonally wet hummocky meadow with Grindelia integrifolia x G. nana var. nana
Three plants growing below Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea at 3700 feet in elevation . Previous plants at this site were identified to this species by Alison Colwell ( contributor to Orobanche section of The Jepson Manual ) .
Three plants growing below Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea at 3700 feet in elevation . Previous plants at this site were identified to this species by Alison Colwell ( contributor to Orobanche section of The Jepson Manual ) .
At the base of a boulder under a large blue elderberry bush, Sambucus mexicana