Erythranthe breweri |
Erythranthe purpurea |
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Brewer's monkey-flower |
little purple monkeyflower, purple monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 2–20 cm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 3–10 cm, minutely puberulent. |
Leaves | cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 1–4 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear-oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear, (5–)10–15(–20) × 1–2(–5) mm, base attenuate, margins entire or remotely mucronulate distally, apex acute, surfaces densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 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, 1–8, from medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–22, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | pink to red, rose red, red-purple, or lavender, throat usually light purple to lavender (similar in color to rest of corolla), palate ridges yellow, abaxial limb with deep pink markings, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 3–7 mm, exserted 0–1 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 2–3 mm, lobes notched or entire. |
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 | 4–12 mm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
ascending to often spreading horizontally, 13–57(–70) mm. |
Fruiting calyces | red-dotted, strongly angled, cylindric-campanulate, 4–7 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped, ribs corky, lobes pronounced, spreading. |
becoming reddish, campanulate, 3–8 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, minutely puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, 3–7 mm. |
included, 3–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe breweri |
Erythranthe purpurea |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug(–Sep). | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Seeps and springs, damp rocks, vernal creek beds, cliffs, granite outcrops, rocky ridges, gravelly areas, meadow edges, stream edges. | Moist openings along streams, swales, and depressions, pine duff in yellow pine forests, margins of dry meadows. |
Elevation | (700–)1300–3500 m. ((2300–)4300–11500 ft.) | 1900–2800 m. (6200–9200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | 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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 390. | FNA vol. 17, p. 388. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Eunanus breweri, Mimulus breweri, M. rubellus var. breweri | Mimulus purpureus, M. purpureus var. pauxillus |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 36. (2012) | (A. L. Grant) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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