Erythranthe alsinoides |
Erythranthe purpurea |
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chickweed monkey-flower, wing-stem monkey-flower |
little purple monkeyflower, purple 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, 3–10 cm, 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 palmately 3–5-veined, elliptic to lanceolate, 4–15 × 1–5 mm, base truncate to truncate-cordate, clasping, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces minutely puberulent. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–4(–8), from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 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, adaxial limb darker than abaxial, abaxial limb with yellow markings, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric to funnelform, 7–13 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 7–10 mm, bilabiate, 3 abaxial lobes notched, 2 adaxial nearly entire, abaxial limb sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | 15–32 mm, glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.1–0.2 mm, gland-tipped. |
ascending to often spreading horizontally, 13–57(–70) 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. |
becoming reddish, campanulate, 3–8 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, minutely puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, (3–)5–7 mm. |
included, 3–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe alsinoides |
Erythranthe purpurea |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Open, rocky slopes, cliff faces, bluffs, mossy rock crevices, ledges, moist rocks, roadsides, along wet paths and trails. | Moist openings along streams, swales, and depressions, pine duff in yellow pine forests, margins of dry meadows. |
Elevation | 10–1900 m. (0–6200 ft.) | 1900–2800 m. (6200–9200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; OR; WA; BC
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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 purpurea is restricted to the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino County and is disjunct in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir in Baja California, Mexico. (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 purpureus, M. purpureus var. pauxillus |
Name authority | (Douglas ex Bentham) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 37. (2012) | (A. L. Grant) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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