Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus parryi |
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dwarf monkey flower, dwarf purple monkey-flower, purple monkeyflower |
annual redspot monkeyflower, Parry's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect, 30–120 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, 10–120(–170) mm, finely and minutely glandular-puberulent. |
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; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to sublinear or oblanceolate, sometimes obovate, (5–)8–25(–31) × (1–)2–9(–12) mm, margins entire, plane, not ciliate, apex: proximals usually rounded, distals usually acute, surfaces glandular-puberulent. |
Pedicels | 1–3 mm in fruit. |
(1.5–)2–4(–9) 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. |
of 2 color forms: (a) magenta, ± deepening at mouth, usually with 6–8 darker spots in arc on abaxial lip around mouth, throat floor yellow to whitish with reddish speckling and (b) yellow with 6–8 narrow reddish spots or lines in arc on abaxial lip around mouth and reddish speckling on throat floor, palate ridges yellow extending onto lip, tube-throat (10–)12–18(–20) mm, limb 11–17.5(–20) mm diam., not 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, (5–)7–12(–13) mm, glandular-puberulent, lobes unequal, adaxial longer, apex broadly rounded to acute, often apiculate, ribs often dark purple, intercostal areas purplish or white. |
Capsules | 8–12 mm. |
(5.5–)6.5–10.5 mm. |
Anthers | included or exserted, ciliate. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | exserted, lobes equal. |
included, lobes equal. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus parryi |
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Phenology | Flowering (Apr–)May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Jul). |
Habitat | Openings in sagebrush, disturbed slopes, granite outcrops. | Banks, gravel bars, washes, sandy ravines, rocky hillsides, ledges and bases of limestone ledges and boulders, clay loam-basalt, bare areas, often with Coleogyne and Larrea, sagebrush and pinyon-juniper. |
Elevation | (300–)1100–2300(–2900) m. [(1000–)3600–7500(–9500) ft.] | (600–)800–1700(–2200) m. [(2000–)2600–5600(–7200) ft.] |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; WY
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AZ; CA; NV; UT
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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 parryi has a limited range, primarily in the Mohave Desert in four states: Arizona (Mohave County), California (Inyo County, where apparently disjunct, in pinyon-juniper woodlands, and at higher than typical elevation), Nevada (Clark and Lincoln counties), and Utah (Washington County). The glandular-puberulent vestiture and unequal calyx lobes are diagnostic. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 440. | FNA vol. 17, p. 442. |
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Synonyms | Mimulus nanus, M. tolmiei | Mimulus parryi, M. spissus var. lincolnensis |
Name authority | (Hooker & Arnott) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 27. (2012) |
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