Erythranthe decora |
Erythranthe suksdorfii |
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sharp-leaved monkey-flower, showy monkey-flower |
miniature monkey-flower |
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Habit | Rhizomatous perennials, occasionally producing many long runners from nodes near base; stems 20-100 cm, erect, not branched, ends of stems densely pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs. | Slender annual, often much branched, the stem 3-10 cm. tall; herbage finely glandular-puberulent. |
Leaves | Leaves mostly cauline, basal leaves generally not persistent; petioles 8-25 mm near base, 3-5 mm mid-stem, sessile distally; blade ovate-triangular to ovate-lanceolate, typically 20-50 mm long and 10-30 mm broad, palmate venation with 5-7 veins, base rounded to truncate to shallowly cuneate, margins sharply toothed, apex acute, surfaces occasionally becoming glabrous, distalmost surfaces hairy as stems. |
Leaves opposite, small and rather numerous, linear to narrowly oblong, mostly sessile and entire, 1- to 3-nerved from the base, up to 2 cm. long. |
Flowers | Axillary flowers generally 2-7, emerging from nodes at ends of stems; fruiting pedicels 18-35 mm, distalmost pedicels hairy as stems with hairs often barely deflexed; calyx green with occasional red spots, ovoid, inflated, compressed across sagittal plane, 15-19 mm, hairy as stems, throat closing, lobe margins villous; corollas yellow, throat commonly red-spotted, symmetric bilaterally, bilabiate; tube-throat widely funnel-shaped, 18-26 mm, protruding 10-15 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 22-30 mm; styles prominently hirsute to villous; anthers not protruding, glabrous. |
Flowers solitary in the leaf axils on pedicels under 1 cm. long, spreading and up-turned at the tip; calyx glandular-puberulent, 3-5 mm. long, the 5 short teeth rounded; corolla yellow, faintly spotted, 4-8 mm. long, only slightly bilabiate, the 5 lobes equal, notched at the tip, the throat narrow, under 2 mm. wide; style longer than the calyx; stamens 4. |
Fruit(s) | Capsules 8-10 mm, included. |
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Erythranthe decora |
Erythranthe suksdorfii |
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Flowering time | May-August | May-July |
Habitat | Moist to wet open areas from the lowlands to middle elevations in the mountains. | Open, moist to rather dry places, from the valleys and foothills to middle elevations in the mountains. |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to southwestern Oregon, also in northern Idaho.
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Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in central Washington; north-central Washington to southern California, east to Colorado and Arizona.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Sensitive in Washington (WANHP) |
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