Erythranthe breviflora |
Erythranthe montioides |
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short-flower monkey-flower |
montia-like monkeyflower, mountain monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, shallowly fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
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, simple or branched from basal nodes, 2–15 cm, glabrous or minutely puberulent, internodes elongate, distinct. |
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. |
cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear to lanceolate, (3–)4–25 × 0.5–2 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or minutely puberulent. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, 10–20, from medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–6, from medial 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. |
yellow, abaxial limb red-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric to funnelform, 6–10 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 5–12 mm, lateral lobes entire or shallowly notched, palate glabrous or sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | straight, 5–11 mm, minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, sometimes minutely hirtellous, hairs sharp-pointed, eglandular. |
(4–)5–20 mm. |
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. |
becoming straw colored, campanulate, 5–7 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, ciliate, glabrous or minutely puberulent, ribs weak, lobes pronounced, erect. |
Capsules | included, 4–6 mm. |
included, 5–6 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe breviflora |
Erythranthe montioides |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Stream and lake sides, gravel bars, springs, moist slopes, damp swales between dunes, along trails. | Sandy opening in mixed coniferous and lodgepole forests. |
Elevation | 700–2300 m. (2300–7500 ft.) | 1900–2900 m. (6200–9500 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; BC
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CA
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Discussion | Erythranthe montioides has been previously treated as a highly polymorphic species with a relatively broad geographic range but is now recognized as narrowly endemic to Fresno and north-central Tulare counties. The following species were segregated from E. montioides: E. barbata, E. calcicola, E. carsonensis, and E. discolor. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 399. | FNA vol. 17, p. 385. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus breviflorus | Mimulus montioides |
Name authority | (Piper) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 38. (2012) | (A. Gray) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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