Bellardia viscosa

(Linnaeus) Fischer & C. A. Meyer

Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 2: 4. 1836.

Common names: Yellow glandweed or parentucellia or bartsia sticky parentucellia
Introduced
Basionym: Bartsia viscosa Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 2: 602. 1753
Synonyms: Parentucellia viscosa (Linnaeus) Caruel
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 491. Mentioned on page 490.

Stems simple or with few ascending branches, (8–) 12–50 (–100) cm, densely glandular-hairy. Leaves 6–30 pairs, ascending or divaricate, glandular-hairy; blade oblong-lanceolate, (10–) 20–46 x 3–18 mm, margins green, apex acute. Spikelike racemes 3–30 cm; flowers 4–35 pairs, interrupted proximally, dense distally, glandular-hairy; peduncle absent; bracts foliaceous, 15–25 x 3–6 mm, margins crenate-dentate. Pedicels 1 mm, glandular-hairy. Flowers: calyx campanulate, 10–16 mm, tube 8–10 mm, glandular-hairy, lobes moreorless equal, narrowly lanceolate, 4–10 x 1.5–2 mm, herbaceous, margins entire, apex acute, glandular-hairy; corolla yellow, 20–25 mm, glandular-hairy externally, throat with 2 inflated lines between lateral and central lobes, abaxial lobes spreading, adaxial projecting; stamens included, pollen-sacs yellow, 1–2 mm, glabrous proximally, villous distally around pore, dehiscing longitudinally in distal 3/4–4/5; style 10–20 mm, short-strigose; stigma capitate. Capsules 6–10 x 2–4 mm, long-strigose. Seeds 0.2–0.3 mm, smooth. 2n = 48.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Sep.
Habitat: Wetland prairies, fields, pastures, beach foreshores, roadsides.
Elevation: 0–1500 m.

Distribution

Introduced; B.C., Ariz., Ark., Calif., La., Miss., Okla., Oreg., Tex., Wash., Europe, also in s South America, e Asia, n Africa, Atlantic Islands, Pacific Islands (Hawaii), Pacific Islands (New Zealand), s Australia

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Bellardia viscosa"
glandular-hairy +
Elizabeth H. Zacharias +
(Linnaeus) Fischer & C. A. Meyer +
Bartsia viscosa +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4.6 cm46 mm <br />0.046 m <br />) +
oblong-lanceolate +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
campanulate +
not accrescent +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
long-strigose +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Yellow glandweed or parentucellia or bartsia +  and sticky parentucellia +
glandular-hairy +
tubular-funnelform +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
B.C. +, Ariz. +, Ark. +, Calif. +, La. +, Miss. +, Okla. +, Oreg. +, Tex. +, Wash. +, Europe +, also in s South America +, e Asia +, n Africa +, Atlantic Islands +, Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +, Pacific Islands (New Zealand) +  and s Australia +
0–1500 m. +
glandular-hairy +
4 +  and 35 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Wetland prairies, fields, pastures, beach foreshores, roadsides. +
axillary +  and terminal +
deciduous +
glandular-hairy +
lanceolate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
entire +  and crenate-dentate +
lobed +, toothed +  and entire +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
glandular-hairy +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
Flowering Apr–Sep. +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
villous +  and glabrous +
Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) +
spikelike +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
reddish-brown;white +
150 +  and 450 +
ellipsoid-oblong +  and ellipsoid +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
Introduced +
subequal +
with few ascending branches +  and simple +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
aerial +  and subterranean +
glandular-hairy +
12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br /> (50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
2-lobed +, capitate +  and clavate +
short-strigose +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Parentucellia viscosa +
Bellardia viscosa +
Bellardia +
species +
glandular-hairy +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +