Erythranthe alsinoides |
Erythranthe androsacea |
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chickweed monkey-flower, wing-stem monkey-flower |
Androsace monkeyflower, rock-jasmine monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, usually simple, (0.5–)2–6(–15) cm, glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.1–0.2 mm, gland-tipped, nodes 2(or 3), usually red-tinged. |
erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 0.5–10 cm, glabrous or minutely puberulent. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiole 1–20(–30) mm, distinctly 3-veined (winged); blade palmately 3-veined, lanceolate-ovate to ovate, elliptic, or suborbicular, 3–18(–32) × 3–12(–25) mm, base cuneate to truncate, margins dentate to denticulate or subentire, apex acute to obtuse or rounded, surfaces glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.1–0.2 mm, gland-tipped. |
cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear to lanceolate or ovate, 2–8 × 1–5 mm, base attenuate, sometimes clasping, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or minutely puberulent. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–4(–8), from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, sometimes plesiogamous, 1–22, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, abaxial limb with a large maroon splotch, also red-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, ± bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform-cylindric, 6–9 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; throat open, palate villous, abaxial ridges low. |
pink to purple, palate sometimes with yellow or pink markings, without yellow palate ridges, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 3–8 mm, exserted 2–3 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 3–7 mm, lobes entire, sometimes notched, adaxial limb glabrous, sometimes sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | 15–32 mm, glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.1–0.2 mm, gland-tipped. |
ascending to often spreading horizontally, 5–30 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | purplish, slightly ridge-angled, campanulate-cylindric, weakly or not inflated, 5–8 mm, margins subtruncate, sparsely minutely stipitate-glandular, lobes 4, (0–)0.5–1 mm, sometimes barely evident, 1 lobe usually slightly longer, margins appearing subtruncate, shallowly convex to rounded-mucronulate. |
sometimes red-dotted, campanulate, 3–7 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, glabrous or minutely puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, (3–)5–7 mm. |
included, 3–5 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe alsinoides |
Erythranthe androsacea |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun. | Flowering Feb–May. |
Habitat | Open, rocky slopes, cliff faces, bluffs, mossy rock crevices, ledges, moist rocks, roadsides, along wet paths and trails. | Moist open areas on gentle slopes. |
Elevation | 10–1900 m. (0–6200 ft.) | 100–3600 m. (300–11800 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; OR; WA; BC
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CA
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Discussion | Erythranthe alsinoides is distinct in its short, erect stems with few nodes, small, mostly ovate to elliptic-ovate, petiolate leaves, minutely stipitate-glandular vestiture, small corollas with a prominent maroon splotch on the abaxial limb, small, non-inflated mature calyces and, most especially, by its nearly truncate calyx margin. Erythranthe pulsiferae is superficially similar to E. alsinoides but has larger calyces borne on divergent-arcuate pedicels, smaller leaf blades with attenuate to cuneate bases, and the corolla limbs are smaller and lack a prominent maroon splotch. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe androsacea occurs primarily in the southern half of California but is scattered as far north as Lake and Modoc counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 395. | FNA vol. 17, p. 388. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus alsinoides | Mimulus androsaceus, M. palmeri var. androsaceus |
Name authority | (Douglas ex Bentham) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 37. (2012) | (Curran ex Greene) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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