Diplacus aurantiacus |
Diplacus compactus |
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bush monkeyflower, orange bush monkey-flower, red bush monkeyflower, sticky monkey-flower |
compact monkeyflower, sticky monkeyflower, viscid monkeyflower |
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Habit | Subshrubs or shrubs. | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect to ascending, 500–1200(–1500) mm, minutely hirtellous-hirsutulous and minutely stipitate-glandular. |
erect, 20–280 mm, densely glandular-pubescent and viscid. |
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. |
usually cauline, gradually reduced distally; petiole absent; blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 4–40 × 0.7–20 mm, margins entire or serrate, plane, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces: proximals glabrous abaxially, distals glandular-pubescent. |
Pedicels | 4–13 mm in fruit. |
1–4(–5) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 2(–4) per node, chasmogamous. |
1 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | sparsely glandular. |
glabrous or sparsely eglandular-puberulent. |
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. |
lavender to magenta or red with diffuse dark markings on sides of darker tube-throat, lobes dark at base, without radiating dark lines, floor and palate ridges white or yellow fading distally to white, palate ridges and throat ceiling villous-pilose, tube-throat 10–20 mm, limb 8–20 mm diam., not bilabiate. |
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. |
symmetrically attached to pedicels, inflated in fruit, 6–10(–12) mm, villous, hairs eglandular, lobes unequal, apex acute to attenuate, ribs and intercostal areas often reddish. |
Capsules | 18–31 mm. |
6–9 mm. |
Anthers | exserted (at throat), glabrous. |
included, ciliate. |
Stigmas | exserted, lobes equal. |
included, lobes unequal, abaxial 3–4 times adaxial. |
2n | = 20. |
= 16. |
Diplacus aurantiacus |
Diplacus compactus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Aug. | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Sand dunes and bluffs, dry hillsides, grassy slopes, road banks, stream banks, basaltic knolls, rocky slopes and outcrops, open pine forests, coastal scrub. | Hillsides, washes, recently burned areas, soil and scree banks, granitic sand, chaparral openings, gray pine-blue oak woodlands. |
Elevation | 0–700(–1000) m. (0–2300(–3300) ft.) | 300–1000 m. (1000–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 449. | FNA vol. 17, p. 433. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus aurantiacus, D. glutinosus, D. glutinosus var. aurantiacus, M. glutinosus | Mimulus viscidus var. compactus |
Name authority | (Curtis) Jepson: Man. Fl. Pl. Calif., 919. (1925) | (D. M. Thompson) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-47: 1. (2012) |
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