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stalk-leaved monkey-flower

Washington 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 threadlike taproot; stems 5-25 cm, erect to ascending, straight or sharply bent at nodes, typically heavily branched, not angled; puberulent- to villous-glandular, flattened gland-tipped hairs 0.1-0.8 mm, sometimes transparent.
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 persistent;

petioles 2-14 mm;

blade triangular to ovate to narrowly ovate, 4-16 mm long and 2-11 mm broad, palmate venation, base rounded to cuneate to truncate, margins finely toothed or entire, apex acute, surfaces hairy-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 1-6, emerging from nodes throughout; fruiting pedicels 20-50 mm, densely covered with minute stalked glands;

calyx greenish, ridged, tubular, slightly inflated, 6-8 mm, margins toothed or lobed, covered with minute stalked glands, lobes pronounced, erect;

corollas yellow with small reddish brown dots, lower limb with two whitish patches, symmetric bilaterally, bilabiate;

tube-throat funnel-shaped and 8-10 mm, protruding beyond calyx margin;

limb expanded 7-10 mm, lobes obovate-oblong, apex rounded to somewhat cuneate;

styles hispid-hirtellous;

anthers not protruding, glabrous.

Fruits

Capsules 4-6 mm, included.

Capsules 5-8.5 mm, included.

Erythranthe patula

Erythranthe washingtonensis

Flowering time May-July April-June
Habitat Vernally moist areas, seeps, and stream banks from the lowlands to the middle elevations. Shallow or gravelly soils of vernally moist 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 the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; south-central Washington to adjacent north-central Oregon.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Threatened in Washington (WANHP) Historical 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. inflatula, E. jungermannioides, E. lewisii, E. microphylla, E. moschata, E. nasuta, E. patula, E. primuloides, E. ptilota, E. pulsiferae, E. scouleri, E. suksdorfii
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