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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Synthyris rubra
|accepted_authority=(Douglas ex Hooker) Bentham in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.
|place=10: 455. 1846
|year=1846
}}
|common_names=Red kittentail or coraldrops
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gymnandra rubra
|authority=Douglas ex Hooker
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication_place=2: 103, plate 172. 1838
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Besseya rubra
|authority=(Douglas ex Hooker) Rydberg
|rank=species
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|name=Veronica rubra
|authority=(Douglas ex Hooker) M. M. Martínez Ort. & Albach
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Synthyris;Synthyris rubra
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Synthyris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Synthyris rubra]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 296, 297
|treatment_page=page 304
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>strictly annual, disintegrating in 1st year; blade oblong-ovate to ovate, 25+ mm wide, leathery, base cuneate, truncate, or rounded to lobate, sometimes cordate, margins crenate, teeth apices acute to rounded, surfaces sparsely hairy; basal veins extending into distal 1/2 of blade, lateral veins 3–6 on each side of midvein. <b>Racemes</b> erect, to 45 cm in fruit; sterile bracts 10–30, ovate-spatulate, largest 1+ cm; flowers 100+, densely aggregated (separating in fruit). <b>Sepals</b> 4, basal connation between abaxial and adaxial lobes on each side of flower. <b>Petals</b> 1–4, apex entire or erose; corolla reddish, bluish purple, green, or white, bilabiate or unilabiate, rudimentary, much shorter than calyx, glabrous, lateral and abaxial petals of abaxial lip connate 1/2+ their lengths, abaxial and adaxial petal lips basally adnate to stamens, tube absent. <b>Stamens</b> inserted on receptacle. <b>Ovaries</b>: ovules 17–40. <b>Capsules</b> densely hairy.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Grasslands, open coniferous forests.
|elevation=200–1700 m.
|distribution=Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Natural hybrids of <i>Synthyris missurica</i> and <i>S. rubra</i> occur near Kamiah, Idaho (A. R. Kruckeberg and F. L. Hedglin 1963).</p>
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name=Synthyris rubra
|authority=(Douglas ex Hooker) Bentham in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Besseya rubra;Veronica rubra
|basionyms=Gymnandra rubra
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Grasslands, open coniferous forests.
|elevation=200–1700 m.
|distribution=Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.
|publication year=1846
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Synthyris
|species=Synthyris rubra
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