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sessile-leaved monkey-flower

liverwort monkey-flower

Habit Rhizomatous perennials, occasionally rooting at nodes nearest base; stems 20-80 cm, prostrate or decumbent to ascending, only slightly branched, villous eglandular hairs 1-2 mm, occasionally with shorter stipitate-glandular hairs, internodes evident. Perennial from slender rhizomes which produce buds that give rise to the weak, drooping stems 0.5-3 dm. long; herbage viscid-villous, especially the stems.
Leaves

Leaves cauline, basal ones not persistent, commonly congested; subsessile to sessile;

blade oblong to lanceolate, 30-70 mm long and 10-22 mm broad, pinnate venation, base rounded, margins toothed to finely toothed, apex acute, surfaces hairy as stems.

Leaves opposite, broadly ovate to reniform-cordate, irregularly toothed, sub-palmately veined, the blade up to 2.5 cm. long, the petiole shorter.

Flowers

Axillary flowers 4-10, emerging from nodes at mid- to ends of stems; fruiting pedicels generally 22-50 mm, hairy as stems;

calyx winged, cylindric-campanulate, barely inflated, 10-12 mm, villous with gland-tipped hairs, lobes spreading noticeably, strongly unequal, linear-lanceolate to slender-triangular, 5-9 mm, apex long acuminate-apiculate;

corollas yellow, throat faintly marked with blackish-brownish lines, symmetric almost radially or weakly bilaterally, nearly regular or weakly bilabiate;

tube-throat slenderly bell-shaped, 15-18 mm, protruding beyond calyx margin;

lobe apex rounded;

styles glabrous;

anthers not protruding, covered with fine hairs that are stiff to slightly rigid.

Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, on long, spreading pedicels;

calyx glandular-villous, the 5 broad lobes 1-2 mm. long;

corolla yellow with red spots, 13-18 mm. long, 2-lipped;

stamens 4.

Fruit(s)

Capsules 6-8 mm, included.

Capsule.

Erythranthe ptilota

Erythranthe jungermannioides

Flowering time June-September May-June
Habitat Wet places generally at low elevations. Moss mats, basalt crevices, and cliffs at low elevations.
Distribution
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to California.
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Known historically from east of the Cascades crest in Klickitat County in Washington, but now considered extirpated; south-central Washington to adjacent Oregon, and south along the Deschutes River to the Maupin area.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern 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. patula, E. primuloides, 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. 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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