Erythranthe eastwoodiae |
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crimson monkeyflower, Eastwood's monkey-flower |
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Habit | Perennials, stoloniferous, sometimes also rhizomatous. |
Stems | scandent to pendent, usually simple, 5–30(–40) cm, villous-glandular to minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs often a mixture of longer and much shorter ones, gland-tipped. |
Leaves | cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, flabellate distally to obovate to oblanceolate or elliptic, (5–)13–40(–55) × 8–20(–25) mm, largest near mid stem or distally, thick, base cuneate to rounded, subclasping, margins coarsely serrate on distal 1/2, apex acute, surfaces villous-glandular to minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs often a mixture of longer and much shorter ones, gland-tipped. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 2–8, axillary at leafy medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
Corollas | scarlet to orange-red or orange, palate red, not spotted or striped, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat narrowly funnelform, 20–30 mm, exserted 5–15 mm beyond calyx margin; throat open, palate puberulent. |
Fruiting pedicels | 10–30(–40) mm. |
Fruiting calyces | cuneate-cylindric to cylindric, weakly or not inflated, 15–23(–27) mm, glabrous or minutely stipitate-glandular to sparsely glandular-villosulous, lobes triangular-acuminate. |
Capsules | included, 6–10 mm. |
Anthers | exserted, villous, thecae reflexed 45º. |
2n | = 16. |
Erythranthe eastwoodiae |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Sep(–Nov). |
Habitat | Seepages in sandstone overhangs, cave roofs, walls, crevices, and cliff bases, pinyon-juniper woodlands. |
Elevation | 900–2000 m. (3000–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; UT
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Discussion | The range of Erythranthe eastwoodiae appears to be essentially contiguous with that of E. verbenacea in the Grand Canyon region, but there is no evidence of hybridization. Erythranthe eastwoodiae (as Mimulus eastwoodiae) is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 394. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Mimulus eastwoodiae |
Name authority | (Rydberg) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 36. (2012) |
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