Diplacus tricolor |
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tricolor monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, acaulescent or caulescent. |
Stems | erect or ascending, 10–140(–170) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
Leaves | 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 | 1–3(–5) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 1 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | usually glandular-puberulent. |
Corollas | 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 | 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 | (2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent. |
Anthers | included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs. |
Stigmas | nearly exserted, lobes subequal. |
2n | = 18. |
Diplacus tricolor |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul(–Aug). |
Habitat | Vernally flooded depressions in grasslands, low spots and ditches in and around agricultural fields. |
Elevation | 50–1500 m. (200–4900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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Discussion | 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. 447. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Mimulus tricolor |
Name authority | (Hartweg ex Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 30. (2012) |
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