Erythranthe exigua |
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eye strain monkeyflower, San Bernardino Mountains monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple, sometimes branched near base, 2–10 cm, minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined, obovate-oblong to narrowly elliptic, ovate, or narrowly ovate, 3–6 mm, base rounded to truncate or cuneate, margins entire or shallowly dentate, apex rounded, surfaces minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, (1 or)2–6, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
Corollas | light lavender to purple, abaxial lobe and palate ridges with yellow patches, bilaterally symmetric, ± bilabiate; tube-throat narrowly funnelform-cylindric, 1.5–2.5 mm, exserted 0.5 mm beyond calyx margin; lobes spreading. |
Fruiting pedicels | divergent-spreading, 15–20 mm, minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Fruiting calyces | campanulate, 2–2.5 mm, minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Capsules | distinctly exserted, 3–4 mm. |
Stigmas | persistent in fruit. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe exigua |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Gentle slopes, along small streams, vernal creeks, pebble plains, openings in Jeffrey pine-juniper forests, runoff areas, vernal depressions, roadsides. |
Elevation | 1800–2400(–2600) m. (5900–7900(–8500) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Plants of Erythranthe exigua are diminutive annuals with few nodes and greatly reduced leaves, corollas, and calyces, wide spreading pedicels, and lavender flowers with small but bilabiate limbs. The species is known only from the San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County and in adjacent Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 406. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus exiguus |
Name authority | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 42. (2012) |
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