Diplacus graniticola |
Diplacus aurantiacus |
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granite-crack monkeyflower |
bush monkeyflower, orange bush monkey-flower, red bush monkeyflower, sticky monkey-flower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, herbage usually drying dark. | Subshrubs or shrubs. |
Stems | erect, 60–120(–150) mm, nodes 4–15(–20), internodes shorter than leaves, glandular-villous with gland-tipped hairs 1–1.6 mm. |
erect to ascending, 500–1200(–1500) mm, minutely hirtellous-hirsutulous and minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | usually cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole weakly delimited; blade usually lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 20–40 × 4–12 mm, margins entire, rarely toothed, plane, apex rounded to obtuse or acute, surfaces: proximals often glabrate abaxially, distals glandular-villous. |
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 | 1–3 mm in fruit. |
4–13 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
2(–4) per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | glandular-puberulent. |
sparsely glandular. |
Corollas | nearly white or pale lavender to pinkish or pale to dark magenta, each lobe with a dark medial line extending nearly to tip, throat with a dark red or purple splotch at junction of each abaxial lobe and adjacent lateral lobe, throat floor sometimes with 2 adjacent white splotches at lateral lobe bases, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat 15–20 mm, limb 10–16 mm diam., bilabiate. |
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 | symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, 8–12 mm, glandular-villous, tube strongly plicate, lobes triangular, subequal, apex acute, ribs narrow, darkened, blackish, thickened, strongly raised, intercostal areas green to purple, not membranous. |
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 | 6–10 mm. |
18–31 mm. |
Anthers | included, ciliate. |
exserted (at throat), glabrous. |
Stigmas | included, lobes unequal, abaxial 1.5 times adaxial. |
exserted, lobes equal. |
2n | = 16. |
= 20. |
Diplacus graniticola |
Diplacus aurantiacus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Sep. | Flowering Apr–Aug. |
Habitat | Granite cracks and crevices. | Sand dunes and bluffs, dry hillsides, grassy slopes, road banks, stream banks, basaltic knolls, rocky slopes and outcrops, open pine forests, coastal scrub. |
Elevation | 300–2100 m. (1000–6900 ft.) | 0–700(–1000) m. (0–2300(–3300) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Diplacus graniticola occurs in the Sierra Nevada from Tuolumne County to northern Tulare County. These plants previously were identified within D. layneae, with which they are partially sympatric; where these two occur together, D. layneae often grows in granite-derived sand and gravel immediately adjacent to the granite rock habitat of D. graniticola. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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. 438. | FNA vol. 17, p. 449. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus aurantiacus, D. glutinosus, D. glutinosus var. aurantiacus, M. glutinosus | |
Name authority | Schoenig: Phytoneuron 2017-24: 1, figs. 1, 3–10. (2017) | (Curtis) Jepson: Man. Fl. Pl. Calif., 919. (1925) |
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