Erythranthe filicaulis |
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Hetch Hetchy monkey-flower, slender-stem monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched at basal nodes, 4–30 cm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
Leaves | cauline, basal usually not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined, linear to oblanceolate, 6–15 × (1–)2–3 mm, base attenuate, margins entire to remotely mucronulate, teeth 1–3 per side, apex acute, surfaces densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 2–8, from medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
Corollas | pink to purple, throat dark red-purple, palate ridges yellow, bilaterally or nearly radially symmetric, weakly bilabiate or nearly regular; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 8–12(–17) mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 10–14 mm, lobes notched, palate villous. |
Fruiting pedicels | 9–30 mm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
Fruiting calyces | reddish brown-spotted, strongly angled, cylindric-campanulate, 7–9 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped, ribs corky, lobes pronounced, spreading. |
Capsules | included, 5–7 mm. |
Anthers | included, hirtellous. |
2n | = 16. |
Erythranthe filicaulis |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Moist open areas on gentle slopes, meadows, roadsides, gravelly soils. |
Elevation | 800–1800 m. (2600–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Erythranthe filicaulis is known only for certain from Mariposa and Tuolumne counties. Kappler 1691 (UCLA) from Madera County also may be this species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 391. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus filicaulis, M. biolettii |
Name authority | (S. Watson) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 36. (2012) |
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