Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus constrictus |
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tricolor monkeyflower |
dense-fruit monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, acaulescent or caulescent. | Herbs, annual, herbage usually drying dark. |
Stems | erect or ascending, 10–140(–170) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, (10–)20–240(–350) mm, nodes 3–6, internodes 1–6 mm, glandular-villous. |
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, relatively even-sized; petiole indistinct; blade obovate, oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, (3.5–)5–32(–47) × 3–15(–18) mm, margins entire or toothed, plane, apex acute or rounded, surfaces: proximals glabrous, distals glandular-pubescent. |
Pedicels | 1–3(–5) mm in fruit. |
0.5–3(–4) 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. |
magenta or pinkish to red-purple, throat floor whitish with dark lines or streaks, often yellowish deep inside throat, never at mouth, palate ridges white, tube-throat (10–)13–22(–25) mm, limb 14–23 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, (5–)7–12(–15) mm, glandular-pubescent to glandular-villous, tube strongly plicate, lobes triangular, subequal, apex acute, ribs broad, darkened, blackish, thickened, strongly raised, intercostal areas whitish, membranous. |
Capsules | (2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent. |
(7–)8–12(–13.5) mm. |
Anthers | included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs. |
included, ciliate. |
Stigmas | nearly exserted, lobes subequal. |
included, lobes equal. |
2n | = 18. |
= 16. |
Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus constrictus |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul(–Aug). | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Vernally flooded depressions in grasslands, low spots and ditches in and around agricultural fields. | Disturbed areas with concentrated runoff from rains on, or just above, verges of roadside banks. |
Elevation | 50–1500 m. (200–4900 ft.) | 800–2100(–2400) m. (2600–6900(–7900) 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.) |
Diplacus constrictus is endemic to Kern, Los Angeles, Tulare, and Ventura counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 447. | FNA vol. 17, p. 436. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus tricolor | Mimulus subsecundus subsp. constrictus, M. constrictus, M. viscidus subsp. constrictus |
Name authority | (Hartweg ex Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 30. (2012) | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 28. (2012) |
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