Erythranthe breviflora |
Erythranthe breweri |
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short-flowered monkey-flower |
Brewer's monkey-flower |
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Habit | Annuals with shallow fibrous roots; stems 4-15 cm, ascending, sharply bent at nodes, branching at nodes near base to mid-stem, covered with minute stalked glands, gland-tipped hairs 0.1-0.3 mm, occasionally with minute sharp-pointed hairs bending backward without glands. | Slender annual, the stem simple or sparingly branched, up to 15 cm. tall, purplish tinged and covered with stalked glands. |
Leaves | Leaves typically cauline, basal leaves commonly not persisting past flowering; petiole 1-3 mm; blade narrowly ovate or elliptic to lanceolate, 5-15 mm long and 2-6 mm broad, mostly even-sized or becoming slightly smaller distally, 3 palmately arranged veins, base becoming narrow, margins entire or finely toothed, apex acute to obtuse, sometimes glandular-hairy as stems. |
Leaves opposite, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 1-2 cm. long and 1-4 mm. wide. |
Flowers | Axillary flowers 10-20, emerging from nodes at mid- to ends of stems; fruiting pedicels not bent or curved, 5-11 mm, glandular-hairy as stems; calyx winged, ridged, bell-shaped becoming somewhat ovoid-ellipsoid, strongly inflated, 5-6 mm, margins significantly toothed or lobed, sparsely covered with small rigid hairs, no glands or occasionally slightly sessile-glandular, lobes pronounced, erect; corollas yellow with red spots or stripes, with bilateral symmetry and weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric to slenderly funnel-shaped, 3.5-5 mm, not protruding past calyx margin; limb minutely widened, lobes broadly obovate with rounded apexes; styles glabrous; anthers not protruding, glabrous. |
Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, the pedicels usually longer than the calyx; calyx 5-lobed, 5-angled, the lobes short with prominent mid-veins; corolla light purple to nearly red, slightly bilabiate, 5-10 mm. long and up to 2 mm. wide; stamens 4. |
Fruit(s) | Capsules 4-6 mm, included. |
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Erythranthe breviflora |
Erythranthe breweri |
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Flowering time | May-July | June-August |
Habitat | Moist and wet open areas at low elevations. | Dry to moist open woods and meadows from middle elevations in the mountains to the subalpine. |
Distribution | Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Idaho, Montana, and Nevada.
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Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Montana, Wyoming, and Utah.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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