Diplacus aurantiacus |
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bush monkeyflower, orange bush monkey-flower, red bush monkeyflower, sticky monkey-flower |
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Habit | Subshrubs or shrubs. |
Stems | erect to ascending, 500–1200(–1500) mm, minutely hirtellous-hirsutulous and minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | usually cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent or indistinct; blade narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate proximally to lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic distally, 15–60(–75) × 2–20 mm, margins entire or shallowly serrate, plane or revolute, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces glabrous or abaxial sparsely to densely hairy, hairs branched, adaxial usually without unbranched hairs. |
Pedicels | 4–13 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 2(–4) per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | sparsely glandular. |
Corollas | yellow-orange to orange, not spotted or striped, palate ridges yellow to golden yellow or orange, tube-throat 25–30 mm, limb 20–30 mm diam., bilabiate to nearly rotate, lobes oblong, apex of adaxial 2 each shallowly, asymmetrically incised. |
Calyces | not inflated in fruit, 18–30 mm, glabrous or minutely hirtellous and/or minutely stipitate-glandular, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes subequal to unequal, apex acute, ribs green, intercostal areas light green. |
Capsules | 18–31 mm. |
Anthers | exserted (at throat), glabrous. |
Stigmas | exserted, lobes equal. |
2n | = 20. |
Diplacus aurantiacus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Aug. |
Habitat | Sand dunes and bluffs, dry hillsides, grassy slopes, road banks, stream banks, basaltic knolls, rocky slopes and outcrops, open pine forests, coastal scrub. |
Elevation | 0–700(–1000) m. (0–2300(–3300) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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Discussion | Diplacus aurantiacus occurs from southwestern Oregon (Curry County) southward to Santa Barbara County, California. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 449. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Mimulus aurantiacus, D. glutinosus, D. glutinosus var. aurantiacus, M. glutinosus |
Name authority | (Curtis) Jepson: Man. Fl. Pl. Calif., 919. (1925) |
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