Erythranthe laciniata |
Erythranthe androsacea |
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cut-leaf monkeyflower |
Androsace monkeyflower, rock-jasmine monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, slender-taprooted or fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from base, 3–38 cm, glabrous or sparsely hirtellous, finely villosulous-glandular above nodes. |
erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 0.5–10 cm, glabrous or minutely puberulent. |
Leaves | cauline, basal deciduous by flowering; petiole 1–35 mm, distals 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, oblanceolate, or oblong, 3–55 mm, longer than wide, base attenuate, margins narrowly pinnately lobed or dissected, sometimes merely shallowly toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrate. |
cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear to lanceolate or ovate, 2–8 × 1–5 mm, base attenuate, sometimes clasping, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or minutely puberulent. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, 2–8, from medial to distal nodes, chasmogamous, sometimes cleistogamous. |
herkogamous, sometimes plesiogamous, 1–22, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, throat red-spotted, abaxial limb of larger usually with 1 large red splotch, bilaterally symmetric, ± bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 4–6 mm, exserted 1–2 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 5–6 mm. |
pink to purple, palate sometimes with yellow or pink markings, without yellow palate ridges, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 3–8 mm, exserted 2–3 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 3–7 mm, lobes entire, sometimes notched, adaxial limb glabrous, sometimes sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | nodding 30–140º at calyx base, 5–25 mm. |
ascending to often spreading horizontally, 5–30 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | red-spotted, cylindric-campanulate, inflated, sagittally compressed, 8–10 mm, glabrate, throat closing, lobes ca. equal size or adaxial slightly longer. |
sometimes red-dotted, campanulate, 3–7 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, glabrous or minutely puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, stipitate, 5–7 mm. |
included, 3–5 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 28. |
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Erythranthe laciniata |
Erythranthe androsacea |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul(–Aug). | Flowering Feb–May. |
Habitat | Cracks, depressions, and seeps in granite outcrops, ledges, talus and scree, rocky streamsides, rocky slopes, roadsides, intermittent drainages. | Moist open areas on gentle slopes. |
Elevation | 900–2300(–3300) m. (3000–7500(–10800) ft.) | 100–3600 m. (300–11800 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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Discussion | Erythranthe laciniata is known from Amador County south to Kern County. As in Erythranthe nasuta, the adaxial calyx lobe in E. laciniata tends to be narrowly lanceolate to triangular (noselike) and perceptibly falcate, curving slightly upward both in flower and in fruit. The adaxial lobe is not so prominently protruding as it often is in E. nasuta. Corolla size is variable in Erythranthe laciniata, but the size of those with an open throat (versus much reduced in size and apparently cleistogamous) is not strongly correlated with size of the individual plant, and all on one plant are about the same size (compare with E. nasuta). Corollas on some plants, however, are all or nearly all greatly reduced and apparently cleistogamous. Fertilization in even the larger corollas apparently is autogamous; the anther pairs are slightly separated or equal in level, and the stigma is in the middle of the anthers or at the level of the adaxial pair. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe androsacea occurs primarily in the southern half of California but is scattered as far north as Lake and Modoc counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 419. | FNA vol. 17, p. 388. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus laciniatus, M. eisenii | Mimulus androsaceus, M. palmeri var. androsaceus |
Name authority | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 44. (2012) | (Curran ex Greene) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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