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stalk-leaved monkey-flower

Scouler's 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. 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.

Erythranthe patula

Erythranthe scouleri

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
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. inflatula, E. jungermannioides, E. lewisii, E. microphylla, E. moschata, E. nasuta, E. patula, E. primuloides, E. ptilota, E. pulsiferae, E. suksdorfii, E. washingtonensis
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