Erythranthe dentata |
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coast monkeyflower, coastal monkey-flower, tooth-leaf monkey-flower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. |
Stems | erect to erect-ascending, simple or few-branched, 15–40 cm, coarsely pilose to hirsute-pilose, glabrescent, internodes evident. |
Leaves | cauline; petiole (0–)2–12 mm, not winged, distally sometimes sessile, subclasping; blade pinnately veined, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, 25–75 mm, thick, base rounded to cuneate, margins coarsely dentate to serrate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces coarsely pilose to hirsute-pilose, glabrescent. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–5, from distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, palate and throat brown to reddish brown-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, ± bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 15–26 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; throat open, palate villous, abaxial ridges low. |
Fruiting pedicels | 12–25(–50) mm. |
Fruiting calyces | narrowly campanulate, not or weakly inflated, 9–14 mm, villous-hirsute on ribs. |
Capsules | included, 8–9 mm. |
Anthers | included, short villous-hirsute. |
Erythranthe dentata |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Stream banks. |
Elevation | 20–400 m. (100–1300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Erythranthe dentata is distinctive and rarely misidentified. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 405. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus dentatus |
Name authority | (Nuttall ex Bentham) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 41. (2012) |
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