Diplacus johnstonii |
Diplacus parviflorus |
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Johnston's monkeyflower |
island bush monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Subshrubs or shrubs. |
Stems | erect, (10–)30–200(–300) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
erect to ascending-erect, 300–1200 mm, glabrous. |
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. |
cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade elliptic to broadly elliptic-oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 15–60 × 4–21 mm, margins entire or serrate, plane or revolute, apex acute to obtuse or rounded, surfaces glabrous. |
Pedicels | 1–4(–5) mm in fruit. |
6–15 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. |
deep red to scarlet, throat sometimes orange, not spotted or striped, palate ridges red to orange-red, tube-throat 27–33 mm, limb 12–16 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes oblong, each truncate-entire to slightly emarginate. |
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, 18–25 mm, glabrous, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes unequal, apex acute, ribs green, intercostal areas light green. |
Capsules | 7–12 mm. |
14–21 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
exserted, glabrous. |
Stigmas | exserted or at opening of corolla tube-throat, lobes equal. |
exserted, lobes equal. |
2n | = 16. |
= 20. |
Diplacus johnstonii |
Diplacus parviflorus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Mar–Aug. |
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, canyons, rocky slopes and walls, bluffs, sea cliffs. |
Elevation | (1000–)1300–2900 m. ((3300–)4300–9500 ft.) | 10–400 m. (0–1300 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.) |
Diplacus parviflorus is known from four of the Channel Islands (Anacapa, San Clemente, Santa Cruz, and Santa Rosa). Hybrids with Diplacus longiflorus occur on Santa Cruz Island; A. L. Grant (according to label data of collections) found these to be fairly common on open hillsides near Friar’s Harbor and Valdez, where the two species grew near each other though apparently separated in habitat, with typical D. parviflorus mostly in the canyons and D. longiflorus on open hillsides. She noted that the apparent hybrids were variable in all possible combinations of features of the leaves, calyces, and corollas, including color. Mimulus parviflorus (Greene) A. L. Grant 1925, not Lindley 1825, pertains here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 433. | FNA vol. 17, p. 452. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus johnstonii | Mimulus aurantiacus var. parviflorus, M. flemingii |
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | Greene: Pittonia 1: 36. (1887) |
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