Orobanche uniflora
Naked Broomrape

Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)

Photo taken in Icicle Canyon, rocky meadow area, wet in spring then drying

Flowers:

corolla bilabiate, flowers without bractlets; calyx deeply cleft into 5 subequal lobes, lobes greater than the tube; pedicels 1 to 3, much greater than the very short stem

Leaves:

Plant:

parasitic on Sedum, Saxifragaceae, Asteraceae and other plants

Habitat:

lowland to middle elevations in the mountains

Distribution of species:

Vancouver Island and Southern British Columbia south to California, east to Florida and Newfoundland

Distribution of genus:

140 species: worldwide, especially in the Mediteranian