Erythranthe decora |
Erythranthe calciphila |
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mannered monkeyflower, northwestern monkey -flower, sharp-leaf monkey-flower, showy monkey-flower |
Mexican moss monkeyflower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous, sometimes producing numerous, long, remotely leafy runners from basal cauline nodes. | Annuals, usually fibrous-rooted, rarely rooting at proximal nodes. |
Stems | erect, simple, 20–100 cm, distals densely, minutely hirtellous. |
erect, sometimes decumbent-ascending, branched, 4–30 cm, minutely stipitate-glandular, also delicately villosulous-glandular along whole length. |
Leaves | cauline, basal usually not persistent; petiole: proximals 8–25 mm, midcauline 3–5 mm, distalmost 0 mm; blade palmately (3–)5–7-veined, broadly ovate-triangular to ovate-lanceolate, 20–50(–60) × 10–30(–40) mm, usually 1–2 times longer than wide, base rounded to truncate to shallowly cuneate, margins dentate, teeth sharp-pointed, apex acute, surfaces sometimes glabrate, distals densely, minutely hirtellous. |
basal and cauline; petiole 1–3 mm, cauline blade slightly or hardly reduced in size from basal, becoming subsessile to sessile (1–3 pairs of cauline leaves); blade palmately 3(–5)-veined, orbicular-ovate to oblong-ovate, 7–28 × 5–22 mm, base truncate to shallowly cuneate, margins shallowly dentate to denticulate, teeth 3–6 per side, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces villous, hairs thin-walled, vitreous, eglandular or minutely gland-tipped, usually also minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, (1 or)2–7(–14), from distal nodes. |
plesiogamous, 1–6(–10), axillary at all nodes, chasmogamous. |
Styles | minutely, prominently hirsutulous to villosulous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow to chrome yellow, throat floor and tube usually red-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate; tube-throat broadly funnelform, 18–26 mm, exserted (8–)10–15 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 22–30 mm. |
light yellow, red-spotted, weakly bilaterally symmetric, ± bilabiate; tube-throat narrowly funnelform, 5–7 mm, exserted 1–2 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 2–4 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | 18–35(–40) mm, distals densely, minutely hirtellous, hairs often slightly deflexed. |
15–30(–55) mm, minutely stipitate-glandular, sometimes minutely hirtellous and minutely stipitate-glandular, sometimes short glandular-villous. |
Fruiting calyces | green, sometimes red-spotted, ovoid, inflated, sagittally compressed, 15–19 mm, distals densely, minutely hirtellous, throat closing, lobe margins (sinuses) villous. |
nodding 90º at maturity, usually 3(–5)-veined, ovoid, inflated, sagittally compressed, 6–10 mm, minutely stipitate-glandular, throat closing, lobes usually 3 or 3 and 5 on same plant, if 5 then with 2 interpolated lobes much smaller than abaxial pair. |
Capsules | included, 8–10 mm. |
included, 2–4 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 30, 32. |
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Erythranthe decora |
Erythranthe calciphila |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Mar–Sep(–Nov). |
Habitat | River banks, streamsides, dripping banks, moist meadows. | Rocky knobs, moist boulders, wet rock faces, roadcuts, seepages, springs, with moss, usually in pine or pine-oak woods. |
Elevation | 1000–1600 m. (3300–5200 ft.) | 1800–2500 m. (5900–8200 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID; OR; WA; BC
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AZ; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora) |
Discussion | Erythranthe decora is distinct in its uniformly ovate to ovate-lanceolate leaf blades with truncate bases and regularly toothed margins, relatively long internodes, rhizomatous habit, mostly unbranched stems, often with leafy runners from basal nodes, large corollas, hairy styles, and minutely hirtellous stems, pedicels, calyces, and leaf surfaces. The densely produced rhizomes suggest a relationship with the E. tilingii group. A population in Clearwater County, Idaho, appears to be long-disjunct from the main range of the species in northwestern Oregon and the western half of Washington. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe calciphila is recognized by its annual duration (fibrous-rooted), short, erect stems with few, even-sized leaves (the basal often persistent), delicate stipitate-glandular vestiture, three-lobed calyces that are relatively large in fruit, small corollas, and autogamous reproduction. Plants rarely root at proximal nodes. In Arizona, at the northernmost extremity of its range, E. calciphila occurs in the Chiricahua, Huachuca, and Mule mountains of Cochise County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 414. | FNA vol. 17, p. 424. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus guttatus var. decorus, M. decorus | Mimulus calciphilus, M. minutiflorus |
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 43. (2012) | (Gentry) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 43. (2012) |
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