Erythranthe grayi |
Erythranthe unimaculata |
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Gray's monkeyflower, mariposa monkeyflower |
green-palate monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, shallowly fibrous-rooted or slender-taprooted, sometimes rooting at proximal nodes. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from base, weakly 4-angled, 8–20 cm, glabrous. |
erect or basally ascending-erect, simple or few-branched, becoming fistulose in larger plants, (2–)10–30(–100) cm, delicately short glandular-villous to stipitate-glandular, often glabrous below inflorescence. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3–5-veined, broadly ovate, 7–18 × 5–12 mm, base rounded, margins denticulate, apex acute, surfaces glabrous, rarely sparsely puberulent. |
usually cauline, basal sometimes persistent, distal connate-perfoliate, often bractlike; petiole: proximals 4–10(–15) mm, distals 0 mm; blade: proximals sometimes subpinnately veined, usually with (1 or)2 pairs arising from midvein above base, becoming palmately veined distally, ovate-lanceolate to ovate or broadly ovate-elliptic, mid cauline 12–40(–50) × 10–25(–45) mm, base rounded to truncate or cuneate, margins shallowly dentate-serrate to serrate, teeth 7–12 per side, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous, sometimes with sharp-pointed hirtellous, vitreous-flattened, or gland-tipped hairs. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 2–20, from proximal to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, (1–)3–14, usually from mid stem and distally, chasmogamous. |
Styles | glabrous. |
hirtellous. |
Corollas | rose red, throat pink lined with rose red and a yellow patch, abaxial ridges yellow, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 8–11 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 7–10 mm. |
pale yellow, palate and abaxial throat dark yellow, drying blue-green, red-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform to subfunnelform, (7–)9–14 mm, exserted 3–4 mm beyond calyx margin; limb broadly expanded (8–17 mm pressed), palate densely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | 6–7 mm, shorter than subtending leaves, glabrous. |
10–40 mm, delicately short glandular-villous to stipitate-glandular, often glabrous below inflorescence. |
Fruiting calyces | campanulate, 9–11 × 5–6 mm, margins subtruncate, glabrous, sometimes densely papillate at flowering with tiny, 1-celled, eglandular hairs, these apparently deciduous by fruiting, lobes reduced, subequal. |
nodding 30–90º, broadly campanulate, inflated, sagittally compressed, 9–13(–15) mm, sparsely glandular-villous to stipitate-glandular, throat closing, adaxial lobe distinctly longer. |
Capsules | included, 5–9 mm. |
included, 5–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, minutely villous-hirsute. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 28. |
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Erythranthe grayi |
Erythranthe unimaculata |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul(–Oct). | Flowering Jan–Jun. |
Habitat | Drying pond beds, creek banks, yellow pine, yellow pine-Libocedrus woodlands. | Stream and canal sides, pool edges, canyon bottoms, sand, gravel, and mud, riparian habitats, pine-oak forests. |
Elevation | 1000–1900 m. (3300–6200 ft.) | 200–2000 m. (700–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora) |
Discussion | In addition to the features noted in the key and descriptions, the fruiting calyces of Erythranthe grayi are distinctly more inflated than those of E. acutidens and E. inconspicua. G. L. Nesom (2012g) maintained E. grayi as distinct from E. acutidens, relying primarily on fruiting pedicel length (see key above), but the two have nearly identical ranges (Tuolumne County south to Kern County), and study of additional collections suggests that only a single species may be represented. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe unimaculata is recognized by its annual duration (fibrous-rooted, without stolons or rhizomes), delicate-glandular vestiture, mostly sessile to subsessile, often widely spaced leaves, closed fruiting calyces, and relatively large, pale yellow to nearly white corollas with a dark yellow palate that commonly dries blue-green. The breeding system is allogamous. Plants commonly are single-stemmed and usually erect but sometimes produce decumbent-ascending stems branching from the base, these sometimes rooting at proximal nodes. Erythranthe unimaculata is known from Cochise, Gila, Pima, and Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, and from Doña Ana County, New Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 382. | FNA vol. 17, p. 413. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus grayi | Mimulus unimaculatus |
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 34. (2012) | (Pennell) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 44. (2012) |
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