Erythranthe dentata |
Erythranthe charlestonensis |
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coast monkeyflower, coastal monkey-flower, tooth-leaf monkey-flower |
Charleston Mountains monkeyflower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted, usually dark purplish. |
Stems | erect to erect-ascending, simple or few-branched, 15–40 cm, coarsely pilose to hirsute-pilose, glabrescent, internodes evident. |
erect, simple, weakly 4-angled, 4–16(–24) cm, slender, glabrous or sparsely villous-glandular near nodes. |
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. |
basal and cauline, basal usually persistent, largest at mid stem or above, cauline relatively few on long internodes; petiole: proximals to distals 1–4 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5–16(–20) × 3–11 mm, base truncate to subcordate, margins shallowly, evenly crenulate to serrate-dentate or denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces: proximals glabrous or sparsely villous, distals and bracteals sparsely hirtellous or glabrous abaxially or along distal margin, sparsely villous adaxially, hairs vitreous, flattened, eglandular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–5, from distal nodes. |
plesiogamous, (1–)4–7, usually from all nodes, usually beginning about mid stem, cleistogamous. |
Styles | glabrous. |
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. |
yellow, sparsely red-dotted, bilaterally or nearly radially symmetric, bilabiate or nearly regular; tube-throat narrowly cylindric, 4–6 mm, exserted 0.5–1 mm beyond calyx margin; limb barely expanded. |
Fruiting pedicels | 12–25(–50) mm. |
deflexed 45–90º at calyx, 6–19 mm, longer than subtending leaves, glabrous or sparsely villous-glandular. |
Fruiting calyces | narrowly campanulate, not or weakly inflated, 9–14 mm, villous-hirsute on ribs. |
sometimes purple-dotted, broadly elliptic-ovoid, inflated, sagittally compressed, 10–13 mm, minutely hirtellous, sometimes also sparsely glandular, throat closing, adaxial lobe not distinctly longer than abaxial, not falcate. |
Capsules | included, 8–9 mm. |
included, stipitate, 6–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, short villous-hirsute. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe dentata |
Erythranthe charlestonensis |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Apr–Jul(–Aug). |
Habitat | Stream banks. | Grassy slopes, damp soils, moist rocks. |
Elevation | 20–400 m. (100–1300 ft.) | (900–)1700–2400(–2800) m. ((3000–)5600–7900(–9200) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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AZ; NV |
Discussion | Erythranthe dentata is distinctive and rarely misidentified. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe charlestonensis is characterized by its annual duration, autogamous reproduction, small stature, commonly purplish color, regularly ovate, short-petiolate leaves with shallowly crenate margins and (distal leaves) sparsely villous or glabrous adaxial surfaces, hirtellous calyces without a prominently longer adaxial lobe, and lack of glandular hairs. It is endemic to the Charleston (Spring) Mountains of Clark County, Nevada, and one locality (Union Pass) in Mohave County, Arizona. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 405. | FNA vol. 17, p. 423. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus dentatus | |
Name authority | (Nuttall ex Bentham) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 41. (2012) | G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-40: 80. (2012) |
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