Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus mohavensis |
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tricolor monkeyflower |
Mohave monkeyflower, Mojave monkey-flower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, acaulescent or caulescent. | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect or ascending, 10–140(–170) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, (10–)20–100(–140) mm, terete. |
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 absent; blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, (6–)7–27 × 1.2–8(–10) mm, margins entire, plane, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate, surfaces green, often red-purple tinted, usually glabrous, veins and margins glandular-puberulent or ciliate. |
Pedicels | 1–3(–5) mm in fruit. |
2–5(–6) 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. |
sparsely 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. |
salverform-rotate, throat dark purplish brown without internal or external markings, floor purplish brown-pilose, lobes purplish brown basally with red veins, palate ridges absent, tube-throat 9–15(–18) mm, limb 8–11(–14) 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. |
asymmetrically attached to pedicel, inflated in fruit, 7–15(–16) mm, glabrous or with glandular-puberulent veins, lobes unequal, apex acuminate, ribs and intercostal areas purplish brown. |
Capsules | (2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent. |
(7–)8–13 mm. |
Anthers | included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs. |
included, glabrous or with a few hairs at base of flower pair. |
Stigmas | nearly exserted, lobes subequal. |
included, lobes subequal. |
2n | = 18. |
= 16. |
Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus mohavensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul(–Aug). | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Vernally flooded depressions in grasslands, low spots and ditches in and around agricultural fields. | Gravelly hillsides and slopes, limestone, granite, fine gravel in wash bottoms and edges, commonly with Larrea. |
Elevation | 50–1500 m. (200–4900 ft.) | 600–900 m. (2000–3000 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 mohavensis is known from San Bernardino County. Diplacus mohavensis is similar to D. pictus in features of corolla morphology and color patterning, and the pair sometimes has been segregated as Mimulus sect. Mimulastrum A. Gray (for example, by D. M. Thompson 2005). Molecular data (P. M. Beardsley et al. 2004) indicate that D. mohavensis arose from within sect. Eunanus. It is distinct from other species of sect. Eunanus (and similar to D. pictus) in its salverform-rotate corollas with an abrupt tube-throat transition and vein-patterned limb. In D. mohavensis, the limb is purplish brown basally with red, irregularly patterned veins fading into a wide, whitish distal border; in D. pictus, the limb is all white, and the purplish brown vein patterning is more regular and not fading distally. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 447. | FNA vol. 17, p. 444. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus tricolor | Mimulus mohavensis, Eunanus mohavensis |
Name authority | (Hartweg ex Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 30. (2012) | (Lemmon) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) |
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