Erythranthe inconspicua |
Erythranthe parishii |
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small-flower monkeyflower |
Parish mimulus, Parish's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, taprooted or fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | erect to ascending, simple or branched from base, 4-angled, 3–16 cm, glabrous. |
erect, usually simple, (3–)10–85 cm, villous-glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiole: proximals 1–5 mm, mid cauline and distals 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, broadly elliptic to ovate or broadly ovate, 6–20 × 6–12 mm, base rounded to cordate, margins subentire to denticulate, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate, surfaces sparsely villous. |
cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, oblanceolate to narrowly ovate or oblong, (8–)15–75 × 3–17 mm, base slightly narrowed, subclasping to clasping, margins distally denticulate to irregularly dentate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces villous-glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, 1–12, from proximal to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 4–12, from medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | pale pink to rose pink or purple to magenta, throat sometimes yellow, lobes sometimes yellowish with pale rose spots, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 5–9 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 5–6 mm. |
white to light lavender, pinkish, or rosy, palate ridges yellow-striped, palate and abaxial limb with or without small, reddish spots, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 8–10 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobe apex truncate to rounded, slightly erose, throat open. |
Fruiting pedicels | 5–15 mm, glabrous. |
15–20 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | campanulate, 6–9 mm, margins subtruncate, glabrous, lobes reduced, subequal. |
slightly ridge-angled, cylindric-campanulate, not inflated, 8–13 mm, villous-glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
Capsules | included, 4–9 mm. |
included, 6–10 mm. |
Anthers | included, minutely villous-hirsute. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe inconspicua |
Erythranthe parishii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Jul). | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Steep, north- or northwest-facing slopes, canyon walls, moist talus, granitic sand on outcrops, moist gravelly open spots, sandy lakeshores, hillside streams or seeps, riparian woodlands, grassy slopes, gray pine, yellow pine, yellow pine-Kellogg oak, chaparral, Pseudotsuga-Pinus-Cornus, canyon live oak woodlands. | Wet, sandy streamsides, rocky riverbeds, canyon drainages. |
Elevation | 200–2100 m. (700–6900 ft.) | 400–2300 m. (1300–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Erythranthe inconspicua occurs in Sierran counties from Kern north to El Dorado and then is apparently disjunct further northward to Butte County. A record from Los Angeles County (Bigelow s.n., 14 May 1854, the type of the species) is probably mislabeled, as other collections by Bigelow on the same day are from Calaveras County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe parishii occurs in the southern Sierra Nevada (Kern and Tulare counties), mountain ranges of southern California (five counties), desert mountains (Inyo County), and in Clark and southern Nye counties, Nevada. It is the only annual species of sect. Erythranthe. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 382. | FNA vol. 17, p. 392. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus inconspicuus | Mimulus parishii |
Name authority | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 34. (2012) | (Greene) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 37. (2012) |
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