Erythranthe filicaulis |
Erythranthe filicifolia |
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Hetch Hetchy monkey-flower, slender-stem monkeyflower |
fern-leaf monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched at basal nodes, 4–30 cm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
erect or slightly ascending from base, sometimes purplish, simple or few-branched from proximal nodes, 3–38 cm, glabrous. |
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. |
basal and cauline; petiole (proximal and proximal to mid cauline), distal bracteate or absent, ovate, margins entire; blade: divisions 1-veined, oblong-lanceolate to ovate in outline, 3–68 mm, slightly thickened, base (at proximalmost division) truncate, margins (of divisions) entire, bipinnately dissected, ca. 5–12(–15) primary divisions on each side, ultimate division nearly linear, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 2–8, from medial to distal nodes. |
plesiogamous, 4–10(–12), on foreshortened distal nodes, usually clustered, chasmogamous, sometimes cleistogamous. |
Styles | glabrous. |
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. |
yellow, proximal lip sometimes red-splotched, palate ridges yellow, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 4–8 mm, exserted 0–2 mm beyond calyx margin or not; palate ridges densely villous. |
Fruiting pedicels | 9–30 mm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
6–14 mm, glabrous. |
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. |
urceolate to urceolate-campanulate, inflated, sagittally compressed, 8–11 mm, glabrous, throat closing. |
Capsules | included, 5–7 mm. |
included, 3–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, hirtellous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 16. |
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Erythranthe filicaulis |
Erythranthe filicifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Sep). |
Habitat | Moist open areas on gentle slopes, meadows, roadsides, gravelly soils. | Slow-draining, ephemeral seeps on exfoliating granite slabs, over basalt. |
Elevation | 800–1800 m. (2600–5900 ft.) | 300–1600 m. (1000–5200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA |
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.) |
Erythranthe filicifolia is known only from localities in Butte and Plumas counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 391. | FNA vol. 17, p. 418. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus filicaulis, M. biolettii | Mimulus filicifolius |
Name authority | (S. Watson) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 36. (2012) | (Sexton: K. G. Ferris & Schoenig) G. L. Nesom, Phytoneuron 2013-80: 1. (2013) |
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