Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus grandiflorus |
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dwarf monkey flower, dwarf purple monkey-flower, purple monkeyflower |
bush monkeyflower, notch-petaledbush monkey flower, Sierra bush monkeyflower, sticky monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Subshrubs. |
Stems | erect, 30–120 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, 400–700 mm, minutely hirtellous to hirsutulous with slightly deflexed, eglandular hairs. |
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; blade elliptic or oblong-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, (10–)20–55 × 4–17 mm, margins entire, serrulate, or mucronulate, plane or revolute, apex obtuse or rounded to acute, surfaces glabrous. |
Pedicels | 1–3 mm in fruit. |
5–12 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. |
sparsely 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 or nearly white to pale orange or light yellow-orange, not spotted or striped, palate ridges yellow to golden yellow, tube-throat 35–45 mm, limb 30–45 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes each apically incised 1/4–1/2 length, appearing 2-lobed. |
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. |
not inflated in fruit, 20–30 mm, glabrous except for lobe apices, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes subequal, apex acute. |
Capsules | 8–12 mm. |
15–25 mm. |
Anthers | included or exserted, ciliate. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | exserted, lobes equal. |
included, lobes equal. |
2n | = 16. |
= 20. |
Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus grandiflorus |
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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.] | 100–1600 m. [300–5200 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 grandiflorus (central Sierran) and D. linearis (coastal) are remarkably similar; it seems likely that they are vicariants. Leaves of D. linearis are narrower, and the nodes tend to be considerably more crowded. Corollas of D. linearis have narrower limbs, and both pairs of anthers and the stigma are at the same level and relatively deeply included. In D. grandiflorus, the anther pairs are separated, and the stigma is above the distal anther pair at or near the throat opening. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 440. | FNA vol. 17, p. 448. |
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Synonyms | Mimulus nanus, M. tolmiei | D. glutinosus var. grandiflorus, D. longiflorus var. grandiflorus, Mimulus aurantiacus var. grandiflorus, M. bifidus |
Name authority | (Hooker & Arnott) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | Groenland: Rev. Hort. 6: 402, fig. 136. (1857) |
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