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Johnny-tuck
Triphysaria eriantha
  
1 Nurseries Carry This Plant

About Johnny-tuck (Triphysaria eriantha) 1 Nurseries Carry This Plant Triphysaria eriantha is a species of flowering plant in the broomrape family, known by the common names johnny-tuck and butter-and-eggs. It is native to California and southwestern Oregon, where it grows in many types of habitats including chaparral, becoming quite common in some areas. Triphysaria eriantha is an annual herb producing a hairy purple stem up to about 35 centimeters in maximum height. Like many species in its family, it is a facultative root parasite on other plants, attaching to their roots via haustoria to tap nutrients. Its green or purplish leaves are up to 5 centimeters long and are divided into a few narrow, pointed lobes. The inflorescence is a spike of flowers. Each flower has a very thin, narrow upper lip which is purple in color, and a wide lower lip which is divided into three pouches. The color of the pouches depends on subspecies: the common ssp. eriantha has white and bright yellow pouches, and the less common coastal ssp. rosea has white pouches tinged with pink.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
1.2 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Purple

Landscaping Information
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Nurseries
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Natural Setting
Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 7.6" - 90.0", Summer Precipitation: 0.15" - 2.96", Coldest Month: 29.9" - 52.6", Hottest Month: 56.3" - 78.4", Humidity: 0.09" - 26.55", Elevation: 5" - 7078"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Butter $n$ Eggs, Butter-and-eggs, Johnnytuck, Triphysaria


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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