Diplacus johnstonii |
Diplacus compactus |
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Johnston's monkeyflower |
compact monkeyflower, sticky monkeyflower, viscid monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect, (10–)30–200(–300) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, 20–280 mm, densely glandular-pubescent and viscid. |
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. |
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. |
1–4(–5) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
1 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | densely glandular-puberulent distally. |
glabrous or sparsely eglandular-puberulent. |
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. |
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, not inflated in fruit, (6–)7–11 mm, glandular-puberulent, lobes unequal, apex acute to acuminate, ribs inconspicuous, intercostal areas reddish. |
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 | 7–12 mm. |
6–9 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, ciliate. |
Stigmas | exserted or at opening of corolla tube-throat, lobes equal. |
included, lobes unequal, abaxial 3–4 times adaxial. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Diplacus johnstonii |
Diplacus compactus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering May–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. | Hillsides, washes, recently burned areas, soil and scree banks, granitic sand, chaparral openings, gray pine-blue oak woodlands. |
Elevation | (1000–)1300–2900 m. ((3300–)4300–9500 ft.) | 300–1000 m. (1000–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 433. | FNA vol. 17, p. 433. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus johnstonii | Mimulus viscidus var. compactus |
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (D. M. Thompson) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-47: 1. (2012) |
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