Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus ovatus |
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dwarf monkey flower, dwarf purple monkey-flower, purple monkeyflower |
Carson monkeyflower, eggleaf monkeyflower, steamboat monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect, 30–120 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent. |
erect to ascending, 20–140 mm, distal internodes 1–3 mm, glandular-pubescent and short glandular-villous. |
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. |
usually cauline, relatively even-sized or slightly reduced distally; petiole absent, base sometimes tapered to narrow, petiole-like extension; blade obovate to broadly oblanceolate, 13–33 × 5–12(–16) mm, margins entire, plane, apex acuminate, surfaces densely glandular-villous. |
Pedicels | 1–3 mm in fruit. |
2–3(–5) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
Styles | glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent. |
glandular-puberulent. |
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. |
magenta to red-purple with a yellow patch on palate, sometimes yellow with a red-brown patch, palate ridges orange-yellow, tube-throat 9–11 mm, limb 12–15 mm diam., bilabiate. |
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. |
symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, 7–9(–10) mm, coarsely glandular-pubescent, lobes subequal, apex lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, ribs purplish, intercostal areas white. |
Capsules | 8–12 mm. |
6–8 mm. |
Anthers | included or exserted, ciliate. |
exserted, sparsely hirsutulous. |
Stigmas | exserted, lobes equal. |
exserted, lobes subequal. |
2n | = 16. |
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Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus ovatus |
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Phenology | Flowering (Apr–)May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Aug). |
Habitat | Openings in sagebrush, disturbed slopes, granite outcrops. | Dry to moist, often barren, loose, sandy to gravelly slopes, andesite or rhyolite deposits, sandy alkaline valley floors, roadsides, washes, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, open yellow pine woodlands. |
Elevation | (300–)1100–2300(–2900) m. [(1000–)3600–7500(–9500) ft.] | 1300–1900(–2400) m. [4300–6200(–7900) ft.] |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; WY
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NV
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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.) |
Mimulus ovatus was treated as a distinct species by N. H. Holmgren (1984); the plants were considered by D. M. Thompson (2005) to be hybrids between M. nanus var. mephiticus and M. cusickii, and he placed the name as a synonym of M. cusickii. Diplacus ovatus is known only from Carson City, Douglas, and southern Washoe counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 440. | FNA vol. 17, p. 440. |
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Synonyms | Mimulus nanus, M. tolmiei | Mimulus bigelovii var. ovatus, M. ovatus |
Name authority | (Hooker & Arnott) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29; 2012-47: 3. (2012) |
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