Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus linearis |
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tricolor monkeyflower |
chaparral bush monkeyflower, Monterey monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, acaulescent or caulescent. | Subshrubs. |
Stems | erect or ascending, 10–140(–170) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, 300–800(–1200) mm, minutely hirtellous to hirsutulous with slightly deflexed, eglandular hairs. |
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. |
cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-oblong, 12–37 × 3–9 mm, margins entire, serrulate, or mucronulate, plane or revolute, apex usually obtuse to rounded, surfaces glabrous. |
Pedicels | 1–3(–5) mm in fruit. |
3–10 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 1 per node, chasmogamous. |
(1 or)2 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | usually glandular-puberulent. |
minutely glandular. |
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-orange to dull orange, not spotted or striped, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat 35–45 mm, limb 20–25 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes oblong, each apically incised 1/4–1/2 length, appearing 2-lobed. |
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. |
not inflated in fruit, 20–28 mm, glabrous, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes unequal to subequal, apex acute. |
Capsules | (2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent. |
18–30 mm. |
Anthers | included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | nearly exserted, lobes subequal. |
included, lobes equal. |
2n | = 18. |
= 20. |
Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus linearis |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul(–Aug). | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Vernally flooded depressions in grasslands, low spots and ditches in and around agricultural fields. | Dry hillsides, rock outcrops. |
Elevation | 50–1500 m. (200–4900 ft.) | 100–300 m. (300–1000 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA |
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.) |
The coastal Diplacus linearis (as Mimulus bifidus subsp. fasciculatus) was allied by F. W. Pennell (1947) with the Sierran D. grandiflorus (as M. bifidus subsp. typicus) as a narrower-leaved and smaller-flowered subspecies; see discussion concerning its distribution under 40. D. grandiflorus. The two were considered synonymous by D. M. Thompson (2005). They are distinct in geography, ecology, and morphology. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 447. | FNA vol. 17, p. 449. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus tricolor | Mimulus linearis, D. fasciculatus, D. longiflorus var. linearis, M. bifidus subsp. fasciculatus, M. glutinosus var. linearis, M. longiflorus var. linearis |
Name authority | (Hartweg ex Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 30. (2012) | (Bentham) Greene: Pittonia 2: 156. (1890) |
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