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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Triphysaria pusilla
|accepted_authority=(Bentham) T. I. Chuang & Heckard
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Bot.
|place=16: 661. 1991
|year=1991
}}
|common_names=Dwarf owl’s-clover or Johnny-tuck
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Orthocarpus pusillus
|authority=Bentham
|publication_title=Scroph. Ind.,
|publication_place=12. 1835
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. chinensis
|authority=D. Y. Hong
}}
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Triphysaria;Triphysaria pusilla
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Triphysaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Triphysaria pusilla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 685
|treatment_page=page 687
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>simple or with 1–6 decumbent to ascending branches proximally, (2–)4–15(–30) cm, glabrous proximally, retrorsely short-strigose distally. <b>Leaves</b> puberulent; proximal cauline: blade linear, 5–30 mm; cauline: blade ± ovate to obovate, 5–30 mm, base sessile, margins pinnatifid, rarely bipinnatifid, lateral lobes 2–8, threadlike. <b>Spikelike</b> racemes interrupted, open distally, (1.5–)2.5–15 cm; peduncle absent; bracts pinnatifid, rarely bipinnatifid, ± obovate, 5–19 mm, lateral lobes 2–6(–10), threadlike. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.3–1 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx (3–)5–7 mm, puberulent, tube 2–3 mm, lobes triangular to narrowly lanceolate, (1.5–)2–3.5 × 1.5–2 mm; corolla dark purple, rarely yellow, 4–7 mm, glabrate, beak dark purple, hooked, abaxial lobes spreading, 0.5–1 mm, throat not abruptly indented, not forming a fold under abaxial corolla lip, adaxial lobes projecting; stamens included, pollen sac yellow, 0.7–0.8 mm, glabrous, dehiscing longitudinally; style 2.5–5 mm, glabrous; stigma filiform or subcapitate. <b>Capsules</b> 3.5–5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 10–30, ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.7–1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Grasslands, lawns, pastures, roadsides, edges of vernal pools, woodlands.
|elevation=0–1400 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;introduced in Asia (China).
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name=Triphysaria pusilla
|author=
|authority=(Bentham) T. I. Chuang & Heckard
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=O. chinensis
|basionyms=Orthocarpus pusillus
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Grasslands, lawns, pastures, roadsides, edges of vernal pools, woodlands.
|elevation=0–1400 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;introduced in Asia (China).
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Bot.
|publication year=1991
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Triphysaria
|species=Triphysaria pusilla
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