Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus compactus |
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tricolor monkeyflower |
compact monkeyflower, sticky monkeyflower, viscid 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, 20–280 mm, densely glandular-pubescent and 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. |
usually cauline, gradually reduced distally; petiole absent; blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 4–40 × 0.7–20 mm, margins entire or serrate, plane, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces: proximals glabrous abaxially, distals glandular-pubescent. |
Pedicels | 1–3(–5) mm in fruit. |
1–4(–5) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 1 per node, chasmogamous. |
1 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | usually glandular-puberulent. |
glabrous or sparsely eglandular-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. |
lavender to magenta or red with diffuse dark markings on sides of darker tube-throat, lobes dark at base, without radiating dark lines, floor and palate ridges white or yellow fading distally to white, palate ridges and throat ceiling villous-pilose, tube-throat 10–20 mm, limb 8–20 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. |
symmetrically attached to pedicels, inflated in fruit, 6–10(–12) mm, villous, hairs eglandular, lobes unequal, apex acute to attenuate, ribs and intercostal areas often reddish. |
Capsules | (2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent. |
6–9 mm. |
Anthers | included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs. |
included, ciliate. |
Stigmas | nearly exserted, lobes subequal. |
included, lobes unequal, abaxial 3–4 times adaxial. |
2n | = 18. |
= 16. |
Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus compactus |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul(–Aug). | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Vernally flooded depressions in grasslands, low spots and ditches in and around agricultural fields. | Hillsides, washes, recently burned areas, soil and scree banks, granitic sand, chaparral openings, gray pine-blue oak woodlands. |
Elevation | 50–1500 m. (200–4900 ft.) | 300–1000 m. (1000–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 447. | FNA vol. 17, p. 433. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus tricolor | Mimulus viscidus var. compactus |
Name authority | (Hartweg ex Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 30. (2012) | (D. M. Thompson) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-47: 1. (2012) |
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