Diplacus johnstonii |
Diplacus clevelandii |
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Johnston's monkeyflower |
Cleveland's bush monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Herbs, perennial, sometimes rhizomatous. |
Stems | erect, (10–)30–200(–300) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, (200–)300–950(–1250) mm, glandular-villous. |
Leaves | basal and cauline, gradually reduced distally; petiole absent, bases of larger leaves often with petiole-like extensions; blade obovate or oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic, (4.5–)7–25(–32) × 2–12(–15) mm, margins entire, plane, apex rounded to acute, surfaces densely glandular-puberulent. |
basal and cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 20–110(–130) × 5–33(–40) mm, margins dentate to serrate, plane or revolute, apex acute, surfaces finely pubescent-glandular. |
Pedicels | 1–4(–5) mm in fruit. |
2–4(–7) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
2 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | densely glandular-puberulent distally. |
minutely glandular. |
Corollas | magenta, darker and more reddish in throat and, often, along narrow radiating lines extending from throat onto midveins of lobes, throat usually with a large dark spot on each side of mouth on lateral walls, palate ridges and throat floor yellow with reddish spots, tube-throat 9–15 mm, limb 10–15 mm diam., not bilabiate. |
bright golden yellow, often with reddish brown speckling on throat floor, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat 21–40 mm, limb 25–30 mm diam., nearly regular, lobes obovate-oblong. |
Calyces | symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, (6–)7–11 mm, glandular-puberulent, lobes unequal, apex acute to acuminate, ribs inconspicuous, intercostal areas reddish. |
not inflated in fruit, 20–35(–37) mm, densely glandular-pubescent, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes subequal, apex acute. |
Capsules | 7–12 mm. |
8–15(–17) mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | exserted or at opening of corolla tube-throat, lobes equal. |
included, lobes unequal, abaxial 2 times longer than adaxial. |
2n | = 16. |
= 20. |
Diplacus johnstonii |
Diplacus clevelandii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Jul). |
Habitat | Steep, unstable scree slides, talus slopes, gravel slides, cracks in granite cliffs, ridges, washes, steep sand and gravel slopes, canyon bottoms, gravelly road banks, recent burns, desert scrub, chaparral, juniper, pinyon-juniper, lodgepole pine, yellow pine, Jeffrey pine, and Jeffrey pine-western white pine-fir woodlands. | Dry, rocky openings in chaparral, roadcuts. |
Elevation | (1000–)1300–2900 m. ((3300–)4300–9500 ft.) | 900–1500 m. (3000–4900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Populations of Diplacus johnstonii occur in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. The populations in northwestern Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties were noted by D. M. Thompson (2005) to be intermediate between D. constrictus and D. johnstonii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Diplacus clevelandii is restricted to Orange, Riverside, and San Diego counties and in adjacent Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 433. | FNA vol. 17, p. 448. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus johnstonii | Mimulus clevelandii |
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (Brandegee) Greene: Erythea 4: 22. (1896) — (as clevelandi) |
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