Erythranthe breviflora |
Erythranthe inconspicua |
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short-flower monkey-flower |
small-flower monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, shallowly fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | ascending, geniculate at nodes, branched at proximal and medial nodes, 4–15 cm, minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, sometimes minutely hirtellous, hairs sharp-pointed, eglandular. |
erect to ascending, simple or branched from base, 4-angled, 3–16 cm, glabrous. |
Leaves | usually cauline, basal usually deciduous by flowering; petiole 1–3 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, narrowly ovate or narrowly lanceolate to elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, largest 5–15 × 2–6 mm, relatively even-sized, or slightly reduced distally, base attenuate, margins entire, mucronulate, or denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, sometimes minutely hirtellous, hairs sharp-pointed, eglandular. |
basal and cauline; petiole: proximals 1–5 mm, mid cauline and distals 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, broadly elliptic to ovate or broadly ovate, 6–20 × 6–12 mm, base rounded to cordate, margins subentire to denticulate, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate, surfaces sparsely villous. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, 10–20, from medial to distal nodes. |
plesiogamous, 1–12, from proximal to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, red-spotted or striped, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric to narrowly funnelform, 3.5–5 mm, not exserted beyond calyx margin; limb barely widened, lobes broadly obovate, apex rounded. |
pale pink to rose pink or purple to magenta, throat sometimes yellow, lobes sometimes yellowish with pale rose spots, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 5–9 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 5–6 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | straight, 5–11 mm, minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, sometimes minutely hirtellous, hairs sharp-pointed, eglandular. |
5–15 mm, glabrous. |
Fruiting calyces | winged, plicate-angled, campanulate becoming ovoid-ellipsoid to campanulate, distinctly inflated, 5–6 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, sparsely, minutely hirtellous, eglandular, sometimes sparsely sessile-glandular, lobes pronounced, erect. |
campanulate, 6–9 mm, margins subtruncate, glabrous, lobes reduced, subequal. |
Capsules | included, 4–6 mm. |
included, 4–9 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, minutely villous-hirsute. |
Erythranthe breviflora |
Erythranthe inconspicua |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Jul). |
Habitat | Stream and lake sides, gravel bars, springs, moist slopes, damp swales between dunes, along trails. | Steep, north- or northwest-facing slopes, canyon walls, moist talus, granitic sand on outcrops, moist gravelly open spots, sandy lakeshores, hillside streams or seeps, riparian woodlands, grassy slopes, gray pine, yellow pine, yellow pine-Kellogg oak, chaparral, Pseudotsuga-Pinus-Cornus, canyon live oak woodlands. |
Elevation | 700–2300 m. (2300–7500 ft.) | 200–2100 m. (700–6900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; BC
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CA
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Discussion | Erythranthe inconspicua occurs in Sierran counties from Kern north to El Dorado and then is apparently disjunct further northward to Butte County. A record from Los Angeles County (Bigelow s.n., 14 May 1854, the type of the species) is probably mislabeled, as other collections by Bigelow on the same day are from Calaveras County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 399. | FNA vol. 17, p. 382. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus breviflorus | Mimulus inconspicuus |
Name authority | (Piper) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 38. (2012) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 34. (2012) |
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