Erythranthe glaucescens |
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shield-bract monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, slender-taprooted or fibrous-rooted, rarely with runners from basal nodes. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched, terete, sometimes 4-angled distally, (5–)30–60(–80) cm, glabrous, glaucous. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiole: basal and proximal cauline as long as or much longer than blade, slender, sometimes pubescent or villous, distals absent; blade palmately 3–5-veined, (proximal) ovate to ovate-elliptic or orbicular-ovate, sometimes subcordate, 10–50 mm, midcauline to distal orbicular, 5–45 mm wide, distinctly connate-perfoliate, disclike distally, base rounded to subcordate, margins: proximals denticulate to dentate or coarsely, irregularly toothed, sometimes lobed at base, distals nearly entire or toothed, teeth scattered, small, apex rounded, surfaces glabrous, glaucous. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–16, from distal nodes, sometimes from nearly all, chasmogamous. |
Styles | minutely hirtellous-puberulent. |
Corollas | yellow, sometimes with a median splotch, abaxial limb densely dark yellow, others much lighter, throat floor and tube red-dotted, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 12–23 mm, exserted 4–8 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 14–36 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | 10–50 mm, glabrous, glaucous. |
Fruiting calyces | broadly campanulate, inflated, sagittally compressed, 7–16 mm, glabrous, glaucous, throat closing. |
Capsules | included, 5–11 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
2n | = 28. |
Erythranthe glaucescens |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May(–Jun). |
Habitat | Seepage areas, wet rocks, moist cliffs, pool edges, gravelly stream banks, serpentine outcrops, roadsides and roadcuts, low pastures, riparian woodlands, blue oak woodlands, chaparral, grasslands. |
Elevation | 80–900(–1100) m. (300–3000(–3600) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Plants from one locality in Butte County are unusual in producing filiform, small-leaved runners from basal cauline nodes. Erythranthe glaucescens is known only from Butte and Tehama counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 417. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus glaucescens, M. guttatus var. glaucescens |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 43. (2012) |
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