Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus aridus |
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dwarf monkey flower, dwarf purple monkey-flower, purple monkeyflower |
low bush monkeyflower, San Diego bush monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Subshrubs. |
Stems | erect, 30–120 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, 80–330 mm, glabrous. |
Leaves | basal and cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, ovate, obovate, or elliptic-lanceolate, (1–)3–30(–50) × (0.4–)0.7–8(–20) mm, margins entire, plane, apex rounded or obtuse, surfaces minutely glandular-puberulent. |
cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent or short; blade narrowly ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, elliptic, or oblanceolate, 20–50 × 3–15 mm, margins dentate to serrate, plane or revolute, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous. |
Pedicels | 1–3 mm in fruit. |
3–10 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
2 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent. |
minutely glandular. |
Corollas | magenta to purplish, dark line often extending onto each abaxial lip lobe from throat, palate ridges yellow with red-purple speckling and border, throat floor villous with hairs extending onto abaxial lip, tube 1.1–1.9 mm diam. at filament insertion, tube-throat 11–15 mm, limb 8–14 mm diam., usually, rarely not, bilabiate. |
pale yellow to cream or nearly white, pale orange, golden yellow, or orange-yellow, not spotted or striped, palate ridges golden yellow, throat internally glabrous, tube-throat 37–52 mm, limb 15–22 mm diam., not bilabiate, lobes entire. |
Calyces | symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, 6–9 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent, lobes subequal, apex acute-apiculate, acuminate, or attenuate, ribs dark green or reddish, intercostal areas whitish. |
inflated in fruit, 35–40 mm, glabrous, tube distinctly dilated distally, lobes subequal, apex acute, ribs green, intercostal areas light green. |
Capsules | 8–12 mm. |
20–36 mm. |
Anthers | included or exserted, ciliate. |
exserted (at throat), glabrous. |
Stigmas | exserted, lobes equal. |
exserted, lobes equal. |
2n | = 16. |
= 20. |
Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus aridus |
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Phenology | Flowering (Apr–)May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Openings in sagebrush, disturbed slopes, granite outcrops. | Rock walls, dry rocky soils. |
Elevation | (300–)1100–2300(–2900) m. [(1000–)3600–7500(–9500) ft.] | 200–1500 m. [700–4900 ft.] |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; WY
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CA
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Discussion | Diplacus nanus is broadly distributed through northern California, southern Idaho, and eastern Oregon, with stations in Ravalli County, Montana, and Park County, Wyoming, and scattered localities in Washington. Diplacus nanus is generally recognized by its strongly bilabiate corollas with purplish (not yellow) tubes and two dark purple patches along the sides of the throats. The glandular-puberulent vestiture of D. nanus contrasts with the glandular-pubescent and viscid-villous vestiture (with hairs much longer) of D. mephiticus. W. L. Ezell (1971) noted that in the Siskiyou Mountains of Josephine County, Oregon, and adjacent Siskiyou and Trinity counties, California, corollas of Diplacus nanus do not have clearly differentiated abaxial and adaxial lips. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Diplacus aridus is known from Imperial and San Diego counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 440. | FNA vol. 17, p. 452. |
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Synonyms | Mimulus nanus, M. tolmiei | Mimulus aridus, M. aurantiacus var. aridus |
Name authority | (Hooker & Arnott) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | Abrams: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 540. (1905) |
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