Erythranthe decora |
Erythranthe primuloides |
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mannered monkeyflower, northwestern monkey -flower, sharp-leaf monkey-flower, showy monkey-flower |
primrose monkey-flower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous, sometimes producing numerous, long, remotely leafy runners from basal cauline nodes. | Perennials, rhizomatous or stoloniferous, mat-forming, rhizomes or stolons flagelliform. |
Stems | erect, simple, 20–100 cm, distals densely, minutely hirtellous. |
erect to ascending, usually simple, 2–10(–20) cm, villous, internodes shortened. |
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. |
all basal or near basal, often rosulate; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate, 7–40 × 4–12 mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins entire, distally denticulate to dentate, or sharply serrate-dentate, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial glabrous or glabrate to sparsely to densely long-villous, eglandular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, (1 or)2–7(–14), from distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1. |
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. |
yellow to orange-yellow, usually brown-spotted abaxially, base of each abaxial lobe usually with a larger reddish brown spot, bilaterally or nearly radially symmetric, weakly bilabiate or nearly regular, densely hirsute on abaxial side of opening; tube-throat narrowly campanulate, 15–20 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobes broadly obovate-oblong, apex rounded- or truncate-notched, throat open, palate densely villous, abaxial ridges prominent. |
Fruiting pedicels | 18–35(–40) mm, distals densely, minutely hirtellous, hairs often slightly deflexed. |
30–110(–130) mm, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular near base. |
Fruiting calyces | green, sometimes red-spotted, ovoid, inflated, sagittally compressed, 15–19 mm, distals densely, minutely hirtellous, throat closing, lobe margins (sinuses) villous. |
tubular-campanulate, weakly or not inflated, 6–8 mm, glabrous. |
Capsules | included, 8–10 mm. |
included, 6–7 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
slightly exserted, margins ciliate, glabrous. |
2n | = 34. |
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Erythranthe decora |
Erythranthe primuloides |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | River banks, streamsides, dripping banks, moist meadows. | Wet meadows, seeps, streamsides. |
Elevation | 1000–1600 m. (3300–5200 ft.) | 600–3400 m. (2000–11200 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID; OR; WA; BC
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AZ; CA; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA
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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.) |
Flowers in Erythranthe primuloides and E. linearifolia characteristically appear to be scapose, but the scapes are pedicels arising from axils of greatly foreshortened stems. Occasionally in both species the internodes may lengthen somewhat, and the leaves are not so densely clustered at the base of the stems. In northern Klamath, western Deschutes, and eastern Douglas counties, Oregon, an area within the range of typical populations, Erythranthe primuloides has distinctively large corollas (limbs 10–15 mm wide). Apparent clones of large-flowered and smaller-flowered plants sometimes grow in close proximity or even intermixed, appearing as two different entities. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 414. | FNA vol. 17, p. 389. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus guttatus var. decorus, M. decorus | Mimulus primuloides, M. nevadensis, M. pilosellus, M. primuloides var. minimus, M. primuloides var. pilosellus |
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 43. (2012) | (Bentham) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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