Erythranthe patula |
Erythranthe scouleri |
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stalk-leaved monkey-flower |
Scouler's monkey-flower |
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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. | Rhizomatous perennials, producing long runners from basal nodes with sparse leaves; stems 15-80 cm, erect, not branched or few-branched, glabrous. |
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 cauline, basal ones not typically persistent; petioles 10-25 mm and gradually merging into blade, becoming sessile distally; blade oblong-elliptic to oblong lanceolate, 25-60 mm long and 8-18 mm broad, palmate venation with 5-7 veins to nearly pinnate, base attenuate, margins evenly and shallowly toothed or scalloped with 10-20 teeth per side, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous. |
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 2-8, emerging distalmost nodes; fruiting pedicels 20-25 mm, glabrous; calyx ovoid, inflated, compressed across sagittal plane, 13-14 mm, glabrous, throat closing; corollas yellow with few or no reddish markings, symmetric bilaterally, bilabiate; tube-throat funnel-shaped and 20-24 mm, protruding 10-15 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 2-30 mm; styles prominently hirsute to villous; anthers not protruding, glabrous. |
Fruits | Capsules 4-6 mm, included. |
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Erythranthe patula |
Erythranthe scouleri |
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Flowering time | May-July | July-August |
Habitat | Vernally moist areas, seeps, and stream banks from the lowlands to the middle elevations. | Seeps, stream and river banks 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 west of the Cascades in southwestern Washington; southwestern British Columbia to northwestern Oregon. |
Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Threatened in Washington (WANHP) | Not of concern |
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