About Cordylanthus nevinii A.Gray
Cordylanthus nevinii A.Gray is a species of flowering plant in the Orobanchaceae family, commonly known as Nevin's bird's beak. It is native to pine and oak forests and woodlands in southern California, western Arizona, and northern Baja California. This annual herb has a red-tinted gray-green color, and reaches a maximum height of 80 centimeters. It is densely covered in glandular hairs. Its sparse leaves are linear in shape, and measure no more than 3 centimeters long. Flowers grow individually, or in pairs or groups of three. One or more bracts sit at the base of each flower; these bracts may be divided into three narrow lobes with knobby tips. Each flower is between 1 and 2 centimeters long. It forms a fibrous white pouch, sometimes veined with purple, that is enclosed in a beaklike calyx made of sepals.
