Diplacus layneae |
Diplacus tricolor |
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Layne's monkeyflower |
tricolor monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, herbage usually drying dark. | Herbs, annual, acaulescent or caulescent. |
Stems | erect, 30–160(–300) mm, nodes 3–6, glandular-puberulent to glandular-pubescent, hairs 0.2–0.8 mm. |
erect or ascending, 10–140(–170) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
Leaves | usually cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole weakly delimited; blade elliptic to narrowly elliptic, oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate, or elliptic-lanceolate, 8–27(–35) × 2–8 mm, margins entire, rarely toothed, plane, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces: proximals often glabrate, distals glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent. |
basal densely clustered; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, (5–)8–45(–60) × (1–)3–12(–20) mm, margins entire, sometimes toothed, plane, not ciliate, apex obtuse, surfaces glandular-puberulent. |
Pedicels | 2–4(–5) mm in fruit. |
1–3(–5) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
1 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | glandular-puberulent. |
usually glandular-puberulent. |
Corollas | pinkish or pale to dark magenta or red-purple, each lobe usually with a faint to dark medial line extending 1/2 or less to tip, throat floor yellowish near base, mostly white with red-purple dots near mouth, palate ridges white, tube-throat 10–15 mm, limb (8–)10–16 mm diam., not bilabiate. |
tricolored, limb and throat magenta to purple, each lobe with a discrete, dark maroon-purple blotch at base, all 3 blotches of abaxial lip round and not usually extending into throat, palate ridges yellow, flanked with white, sometimes purple-spotted, tube-throat (13–)15–50 mm, limb 7–21 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes equal. |
Calyces | symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, (5–)6–8(–9) mm, glandular-puberulent to glandular-pubescent, tube strongly plicate, lobes triangular, subequal, apex acute, ribs broad, darkened, blackish, thickened, strongly raised, intercostal areas whitish, membranous. |
slightly asymmetrically attached to pedicel, not inflated in fruit, (6–)11–23 mm, densely glandular-puberulent, lobes subequal, apex obtuse, ribs often purplish proximally, intercostal areas whitish. |
Capsules | 6–10(–13) mm. |
(2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent. |
Anthers | included, ciliate. |
included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs. |
Stigmas | included, lobes unequal, abaxial 1.5 times adaxial. |
nearly exserted, lobes subequal. |
2n | = 16. |
= 18. |
Diplacus layneae |
Diplacus tricolor |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Mar–Jul(–Aug). |
Habitat | Road banks, serpentine, granitic sand, red clay, lava beds and volcanic soils, openings in chaparral, shallow dry streambeds or stream banks, burned or otherwise disturbed open areas. | Vernally flooded depressions in grasslands, low spots and ditches in and around agricultural fields. |
Elevation | (100–)400–2400 m. ((300–)1300–7900 ft.) | 50–1500 m. (200–4900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR
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Discussion | D. M. Thompson (2005) observed that two forms of Diplacus layneae co-occur from the Yosemite National Park area southward; one of these is recognized here as D. graniticola. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Diplacus tricolor occurs in northwestern and south-central Oregon and from there across a disjunction to central California as far as Kern County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 437. | FNA vol. 17, p. 447. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Eunanus layneae, Mimulus brachiatus, M. layneae | Mimulus tricolor |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (Hartweg ex Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 30. (2012) |
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