Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus brevipes |
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tricolor monkeyflower |
wide throated yellow monkeyflower, wide-throat yellow monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, acaulescent or caulescent. | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect or ascending, 10–140(–170) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, (25–)50–800(–1000) mm, usually glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent, viscid. |
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. |
basal and cauline, basal usually in rosette, cauline gradually reduced distally; petiole often present proximally, usually absent distally; blade linear-lanceolate, elliptic, narrowly oblanceolate, or lanceolate, sometimes ovate or obovate, 7–90(–125) × 1–40(–48) mm, margins serrate or entire, plane, apex rounded to acute, surfaces: proximals glabrate, distals glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent. |
Pedicels | 1–3(–5) mm in fruit. |
2–10(–17 at proximalmost node) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 1 per node, chasmogamous. |
2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
Styles | usually glandular-puberulent. |
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. |
yellow, usually with reddish brown spots, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat (10–)15–30(–34) mm, limb 11–30 mm diam., not bilabiate. |
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. |
inflated in fruit, (7–)10–25(–31) mm, glandular-pubescent and viscid, lobes unequal, apex acute to acuminate, ribs green, sometimes purplish, intercostal areas white. |
Capsules | (2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent. |
(7–)8–14(–17) mm. |
Anthers | included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | nearly exserted, lobes subequal. |
included, lobe unequal, abaxial 1.5–2 times adaxial. |
2n | = 18. |
= 16. |
Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus brevipes |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul(–Aug). | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Vernally flooded depressions in grasslands, low spots and ditches in and around agricultural fields. | Openings in chaparral or coastal sage scrub, recently burned or mechanically disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 50–1500 m. (200–4900 ft.) | 30–1800(–2200) m. (100–5900(–7200) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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.) |
Diplacus brevipes occurs in the southern quarter of California. It is distinctive in its relatively large, yellow corollas, linear-lanceolate leaves, and relatively long internodes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 447. | FNA vol. 17, p. 434. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus tricolor | Mimulus brevipes |
Name authority | (Hartweg ex Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 30. (2012) | (Bentham) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 28. (2012) |
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