Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus pygmaeus |
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tricolor monkeyflower |
Egg Lake monkeyflower, pygmy monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, acaulescent or caulescent. | Herbs, annual, usually acaulescent. |
Stems | erect or ascending, 10–140(–170) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, 5–12(–20) mm, glandular-puberulent. |
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 or basal and cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 2–15 × 0.5–3.5 mm, margins entire or toothed, plane, proximal 1/2 usually ciliate, apex rounded, surfaces glandular-puberulent. |
Pedicels | 1–3(–5) mm in fruit. |
0–1 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 1 per node, chasmogamous. |
1 per node, usually 1–5 per plant, chasmogamous. |
Styles | usually glandular-puberulent. |
sparsely glandular-puberulent distally. |
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. |
throat, limb, and palate ridges yellow, central abaxial lobe and throat floor sparsely red-spotted, tube-throat 5–10 mm, limb 2–5 mm diam., 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. |
slightly asymmetrically attached to pedicel, inflated in fruit, 3.5–8 mm, glandular-puberulent, lobes subequal, apex rounded, ribs reddish purple, intercostal areas white. |
Capsules | (2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent. |
2–4 mm, indehiscent. |
Anthers | included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | nearly exserted, lobes subequal. |
usually exserted, lobes subequal. |
2n | = 18. |
= 20. |
Diplacus tricolor |
Diplacus pygmaeus |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul(–Aug). | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Vernally flooded depressions in grasslands, low spots and ditches in and around agricultural fields. | Vernally flooded swales, mud flats flanking streams, stream banks, low spots in meadows. |
Elevation | 50–1500 m. (200–4900 ft.) | 1100–1800 m. (3600–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; OR
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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 pygmaeus occurs in northeastern California and south-central Oregon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 447. | FNA vol. 17, p. 446. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus tricolor | Mimulus pygmaeus |
Name authority | (Hartweg ex Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 30. (2012) | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 30. (2012) |
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