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stalk-leaved monkey-flower

disappearing monkey-flower

Habit Annuals with fibrous roots or a filiform-taproot; stems usually 5-15 cm, erect to ascending, straight or sharply bent at nodes, usually unbranched, covered with stalked glands, gland-tipped hairs 0.2-0.5 mm. Annuals with fibrous roots or filiform-taproot; stems 6-20 cm, erect to ascending, straight or sharply bent at nodes, unbranched or branched near base to mid-stem, covered with minute stipitate-glands, gland-tipped hairs 0.1-0.3 mm.
Leaves

Leaves cauline, basal ones not persistent;

petioles 8-25 mm;

blade deltate or somewhat ovate to lanceolate, approximately 4-12 mm long and 3-10 mm broad, palmate venation with 3 veins, base rounded to cuneate-truncate, margins usually finely toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous as stems.

Leaves mostly cauline, basal leaves generally not persistent by flowering;

petioles 1-3 mm near base, becoming sessile distally;

blade elliptic to lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 8-18 mm long and 3-7 mm broad, mostly evenly sized throughout or somewhat reduced distally, palmate venation with 3-5 veins, base attenuate to obtuse to rounded, margins entire to finely toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glandular as stems.

Flowers

Axillary flowers 1-10, emerging from nodes throughout; fruiting pedicels 10-25 mm, glandular as stems;

calyx tubular, barely or not inflated, 5-6 mm, margins with distinct teeth or lobes, slightly stipitate-glandular to sparsely hirtellous, lobes pronounced, erect;

corollas yellow, lower limb commonly with some red or brownish dots, symmetric radially or bilaterally, regular or weakly bilabiate;

tube-throat funnel-shaped, 7-8 mm, protruding beyond calyx margin;

lobes oblong, apex rounded to truncate;

styles glabrous;

anthers not protruding, glabrous.

Axillary flowers 10-20, emerging from mid- to ends of stems; fruiting pedicels not curved or bent, 7-18 mm, glandular as stems;

calyx winged, ridged, maturing to ovoid-ellipsoid to bell-shaped or widely urn-shaped, distinctly inflated, 7-11 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, sparsely covered with minute and rigid hairs, eglandular, lobes pronounced, erect;

corollas yellow to light yellow, with sparse red dots or not, symmetric bilaterally, slightly bilabiate;

tube-throat cylindric, 5-8 mm, protruding 1-3 mm beyond calyx margin;

limb only slightly widened, lobes widely obovate, apex rounded to mucronate;

styles glabrous;

anthers not protruding, glabrous.

Fruits

Capsules 4-6 mm, included.

Capsules 5-9 mm, included.

Erythranthe patula

Erythranthe inflatula

Flowering time May-July May-July
Habitat Vernally moist areas, seeps, and stream banks from the lowlands to the middle elevations. Moist to wet open areas at low elevations.
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in southeastern Washington; southeast Washington to adjacent northeast Oregon and adjacent west-central Idaho.
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Klickitat County in Washington; south-central Washington to northeastern California, east to southwestern Idaho and Nevada.
Origin Native Native
Conservation status Threatened in Washington (WANHP) Review Group 1 in Washington (WANHP)
Sibling taxa
E. alsinoides, E. ampliata, E. arvensis, E. breviflora, E. breweri, E. caespitosa, E. cardinalis, E. decora, E. dentata, E. floribunda, E. grandis, E. guttata, E. inflatula, E. jungermannioides, E. lewisii, E. microphylla, E. moschata, E. nasuta, E. primuloides, E. ptilota, E. pulsiferae, E. scouleri, E. suksdorfii, E. washingtonensis
E. alsinoides, E. ampliata, E. arvensis, E. breviflora, E. breweri, E. caespitosa, E. cardinalis, E. decora, E. dentata, E. floribunda, E. grandis, E. guttata, E. jungermannioides, E. lewisii, E. microphylla, E. moschata, E. nasuta, E. patula, E. primuloides, E. ptilota, E. pulsiferae, E. scouleri, E. suksdorfii, E. washingtonensis
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