Erythranthe breviflora |
Erythranthe parishii |
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short-flower monkey-flower |
Parish mimulus, Parish's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, shallowly fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, taprooted or 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, usually simple, (3–)10–85 cm, villous-glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
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; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, oblanceolate to narrowly ovate or oblong, (8–)15–75 × 3–17 mm, base slightly narrowed, subclasping to clasping, margins distally denticulate to irregularly dentate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces villous-glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, 10–20, from medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 4–12, 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. |
white to light lavender, pinkish, or rosy, palate ridges yellow-striped, palate and abaxial limb with or without small, reddish spots, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 8–10 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobe apex truncate to rounded, slightly erose, throat open. |
Fruiting pedicels | straight, 5–11 mm, minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, sometimes minutely hirtellous, hairs sharp-pointed, eglandular. |
15–20 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. |
slightly ridge-angled, cylindric-campanulate, not inflated, 8–13 mm, villous-glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
Capsules | included, 4–6 mm. |
included, 6–10 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe breviflora |
Erythranthe parishii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Stream and lake sides, gravel bars, springs, moist slopes, damp swales between dunes, along trails. | Wet, sandy streamsides, rocky riverbeds, canyon drainages. |
Elevation | 700–2300 m. (2300–7500 ft.) | 400–2300 m. (1300–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; BC
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CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Erythranthe parishii occurs in the southern Sierra Nevada (Kern and Tulare counties), mountain ranges of southern California (five counties), desert mountains (Inyo County), and in Clark and southern Nye counties, Nevada. It is the only annual species of sect. Erythranthe. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 399. | FNA vol. 17, p. 392. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus breviflorus | Mimulus parishii |
Name authority | (Piper) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 38. (2012) | (Greene) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 37. (2012) |
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