Duration: Perennial

Nativity: Native

Lifeform: Forb/Herb

General: Stems erect or ascending from a common base, 15-50 cm tall, sparsely hispid-hirsute.

Leaves: Subsessile or with short, margined petiole; blades 2-4 cm long about as wide, bipinnatifid or trifid, with divisions deeply incised, ultimate segments narrowly lanceolate, hirtellous to hirsute on both surfaces.

Flowers: Spikes on short peduncles, compact even in fruit; floral bracts shorter than calyx, lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, hirsute-ciliate; fruiting calyx 7-9 mm long, densely glandular, viscid-pubescent, hirsute on nerves, lobes short; teeth not exceeding 2 mm, contorted or constricted above nutlets; corolla pink to rose-purple, tube 11-12 mm long, limb 6-8 mm wide, lobes retuse.

Fruits: Four nutlets 2.5-3 mm long.

Ecology: Found in rich loamy soils, to sandy or rocky soils from 4,000-8,000 ft (1219-2438 m); flowers May-October.

Notes: Note the recent name change. Distinctive among the Glandularia by virtue of is deeply incised and bipinnatifid to trifid leaves, along with its copiously glandular viscid calyx.

Ethnobotany: Used as a life medicine.

Etymology: Glandularia is ancient word meaning full of glands, while bipinnatifida means twice-parted, having two parts, ciliata means hairy.

Synonyms: Glandularia wrightii, but numerous others, see Tropicos

Editor: SBuckley, 2010