Flora of North America species comparison

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Diplacus compactus

compact monkeyflower, sticky monkeyflower, viscid monkeyflower
Habit Herbs, annual.
Stems

erect, 20–280 mm, densely glandular-pubescent and viscid.
Leaves

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

1–4(–5) mm in fruit.
Flowers

1 per node, chasmogamous.
Styles

glabrous or sparsely eglandular-puberulent.
Corollas

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

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

6–9 mm.
Anthers

included, ciliate.
Stigmas

included, lobes unequal, abaxial 3–4 times adaxial.
2n

= 16.

Diplacus compactus
Phenology Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat Hillsides, washes, recently burned areas, soil and scree banks, granitic sand, chaparral openings, gray pine-blue oak woodlands.
Elevation 300–1000 m. (1000–3300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Source FNA vol. 17, p. 433.
Parent taxa Phrymaceae > Diplacus
Sibling taxa
D. angustatus, D. aridus, D. aurantiacus, D. bicolor, D. bigelovii, D. bolanderi, D. brandegeei, D. brevipes, D. calycinus, D. cascadensis, D. clevelandii, D. clivicola, D. congdonii, D. constrictus, D. cusickii, D. cusickioides, D. deschutesensis, D. douglasii, D. fremontii, D. grandiflorus, D. graniticola, D. jepsonii, D. johnstonii, D. kelloggii, D. layneae, D. leptaleus, D. linearis, D. longiflorus, D. mephiticus, D. mohavensis, D. nanus, D. ovatus, D. parryi, D. parviflorus, D. pictus, D. pulchellus, D. puniceus, D. pygmaeus, D. rattanii, D. rupicola, D. rutilus, D. thompsonii, D. torreyi, D. traskiae, D. tricolor, D. vandenbergensis, D. viscidus
Synonyms Mimulus viscidus var. compactus
Name authority (D. M. Thompson) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-47: 1. (2012)
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