Erythranthe linearifolia |
Erythranthe floribunda |
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primrose monkeyflower, threadleaf primrose monkeyflower |
many-flower monkey-flower, purple-stem monkey-flower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous, densely cespitose, forming large patches and turfs 0.3–1 m diam. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted or filiform-taprooted. |
Stems | erect to ascending, simple, 2–10 cm, sparsely hirsute and stipitate-glandular, internodes shortened. |
erect to decumbent, sometimes procumbent-trailing, straight or geniculate at nodes, simple or many-branched, 3–22(–40) cm, villous-glandular, hairs greatly variable in length and density, gland-tipped, sometimes 0.2–0.5 mm, sparsely stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | basal or near basal, sometimes proximal cauline, subrosulate; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 15–50 × 1.5–5 mm, base long-cuneate, often subclasping, margins entire, dentate-serrate, or distally dentate, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or adaxial sparsely short-pilose, eglandular. |
cauline, basal mostly deciduous by flowering; petiole 1–12 mm; blade pinnately to subpalmately veined, ovate, (3–)8–25(–35) × (1–)5–18(–26) mm, base cuneate to truncate or cordate, margins serrate to sparsely dentate, apex acute, surfaces villous-glandular, hairs greatly variable in length and density, gland-tipped, sometimes 0.2–0.5 mm, sparsely stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1. |
plesiogamous, 1–20, from proximal to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, red-spotted or -striped, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate, loosely hirsute on abaxial side of opening; tube-throat narrowly campanulate, 18–22 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobes broadly obovate-oblong, apex rounded- or truncate-notched, throat open. |
yellow, abaxial limb red-dotted, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform-cylindric, (4–)5–10 mm, exserted slightly beyond calyx margin or not; limb expanded 3–4 mm diam., lobes usually oblong, apex notched. |
Fruiting pedicels | (40–)65–85(–120) mm, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular near base. |
5–20(–26) mm, villous-glandular, hairs greatly variable in length and density, gland-tipped, sometimes 0.2–0.5 mm, sparsely stipitate-glandular. |
Fruiting calyces | winged- or plicate-angled, tubular-campanulate, weakly or not inflated, 9–10(–12) mm, glabrous. |
greenish or purplish to red-dotted, cylindric, ± inflated, 4–7 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, villous-glandular, lobes pronounced, erect. |
Capsules | included, 6–7 mm. |
included, 4–7 mm. |
Anthers | included or slightly exserted, margins ciliate, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 32. |
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Erythranthe linearifolia |
Erythranthe floribunda |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering (May–)Jun–Aug(–Sep). |
Habitat | Wet banks, Darlingtonia seeps and bogs, seepages in serpentine talus. | Under overhangs, moist roofs of caves, wet rock crevices, cliff faces, wet cliff bases, below waterfalls, seeps, springs, humus and moist soils over rocks and slabs, moist slopes, ditches and pond edges, wet edges of creeks and rivers, drying mud on margins of wetland depressions, creek beds, wet or swampy meadows, along trails, in lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, ponderosa pine-Douglas fir, and spruce-fir woodlands. |
Elevation | 600–2800 m. (2000–9200 ft.) | (100–)1800–2600(–3100) m. ((300–)5900–8500(–10200) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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AR; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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Discussion | Erythranthe linearifolia is endemic to serpentine substrates in Shasta, Siskiyou, and Trinity counties; typical E. primuloides occurs in the same area but not on serpentine. Erythranthe linearifolia is distinct from E. primuloides especially in its narrow leaves and cespitose habit. A collection from Tulare County appears to be E. linearifolia (Shevock 10597, CAS), but this appears to be far out of range and the voucher should be reexamined; it probably is better identified as an unusual collection of E. primuloides. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Some plants identified here as Erythranthe floribunda in Arizona and southwestern New Mexico are distinctive in their prominently inflated calyces, sessile to subsessile leaves with attenuate bases and palmately three- to five-veined venation, and much-elongated pedicels (20–43 mm); numerous intermediates in Arizona make it difficult to conclude that the variants represent an entity discontinuous from plants of typical morphology. The variant morphology has not been observed among Mexican populations. Further discussion of this situation was given by G. L. Nesom (2012h). Erythranthe floribunda has been documented from 12 counties in northern Arkansas (Carroll, Cleburne, Crawford, Franklin, Izard, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Stone, and Washington), where it occurs at 300–500 m. The unpublished name Mimulus floribundus subsp. moorei Iltis appears in various checklists in reference to the Arkansas plants, but there appears to be no basis for treating them as distinct from the rest of the species. Elsewhere in the main range (western states), scattered variants extremely reduced in size, leaves, flowers, and overall stature appear to be at the lower limits of the species rather than taxonomically distinct. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 390. | FNA vol. 17, p. 404. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus primuloides var. linearifolius, M. linearifolius, M. primuloides subsp. linearifolius | Mimulus floribundus, M. deltoideus, M. floribundus var. membranaceus, M. membranaceus, M. peduncularis, M. serotinus |
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) | (Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 38. (2012) |
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