Erythranthe bicolor |
Erythranthe hardhamiae |
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yellow and white monkeyflower |
Hardham's monkeyflower, Santa Lucia monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 4–30 cm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, (2–)3–13 cm, glabrous or minutely puberulent. |
Leaves | cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm or short-attenuate; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), narrowly elliptic to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 10–30 × 2–6 mm at mid stem, base attenuate, margins entire or remotely shallowly dentate to mucronulate, teeth 1–4 per side, apex acute, surfaces densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear to oblanceolate, 2–12 × 1–5 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or minutely puberulent. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 2–8, from medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–12, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | minutely glandular. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, adaxial lip white, sometimes yellow, throat and abaxial limb red-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 8–12 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb broadly expanded, lobes 2-fid, palate villous. |
pink to purple, abaxial limb with 2 yellow palate ridges, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 5–10 mm, exserted 2–5 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 7–13 mm, lobes notched, abaxial limb sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | (5–)7–20(–30) mm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
ascending to often spreading horizontally, 10–60 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | red-dotted, strongly angled, cylindric-campanulate, (5–)7–12 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped, ribs corky, lobes pronounced, spreading. |
becoming reddish, sometimes red-spotted, campanulate to cylindric, 4–6 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, glabrous or minutely puberulent, ribs weak, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, 4–6 mm. |
included, 4–5 mm. |
Anthers | included, margins ciliate, glabrous. |
included or slightly exserted, glabrous. |
Stigmas | equal in length to corolla tube or exserted. |
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Erythranthe bicolor |
Erythranthe hardhamiae |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Mar–Apr. |
Habitat | Moist banks, serpentine and granite outcrops, seepage areas, volcanic mudflows, open red clay exposures. | Sandy soils near sandstone outcrops and chaparral. |
Elevation | (100–)400–1700(–2500) m. ((300–)1300–5600(–8200) ft.) | 300–800 m. (1000–2600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA |
Discussion | Erythranthe bicolor ranges from Shasta and Trinity counties south to Tulare County; the identity of apparently disjunct populations in San Bernardino County needs to be reexamined. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe hardhamiae is endemic to the central coast region in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties. The species was previously included in E. palmeri but can be distinguished by having a wider limb (16–25 mm) than E. palmeri (8–15 mm) and pale pink flowers with a broad yellow palate and orifice. In contrast, E. palmeri has deep pink flowers with two yellow ridges on the palate. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 390. | FNA vol. 17, p. 388. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus bicolor | |
Name authority | (Hartweg ex Bentham) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 36. (2012) | N. S. Fraga: Aliso 30: 64, figs. 23–25. (2012) |
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