Erythranthe moschata |
Erythranthe diffusa |
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mimule musqué, musk monkeyflower, musk-flower, musk-plant, sticky monkey-flower |
Palomar monkeyflower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous, rooting at proximal nodes. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, sometimes ascending to decumbent, simple or branched, (2–)5–20 cm, nodes 2–4(or 5), glabrate to glandular-villous, hairs 0.5–2 mm, gland-tipped, internodes evident. |
erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 4–20 cm, minutely puberulent. |
Leaves | usually cauline, basal not persistent, distinctly separated; petiole 0 mm or (0.5–)1–5(–10) mm; blade pinnately veined, oblong-ovate to ovate, (10–)15–40(–50) × 5–25 mm, base obtuse-cuneate to truncate, rounded or subcordate, subclasping to sessile, margins coarsely serrate-dentate to denticulate or subentire, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrate to glandular-villous. |
cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), lanceolate to ovate, 3–20 × 1–6 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute, surfaces minutely puberulent. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–8, from medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–36, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
distally pubescent. |
Corollas | yellow, throat with fine red to blackish or brown lines extending onto lobes, red to brown dots in throat and lobes present or absent, bilaterally or nearly radially symmetric, bilabiate or nearly regular; tube-throat narrowly funnelform, 11–18 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobes oblong-obovate, apex rounded to notched. |
pink to purple, abaxial limb with 2 yellow palate ridges, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, (3–)6–10 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 3–14 mm, lobes notched, adaxial limb glabrous, sometimes sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | (7–)10–25 mm, glabrate to glandular-villous. |
ascending to spreading horizontally, (2–)12–60(–68) mm. |
Fruiting calyces | ridge- to wing-angled, campanulate to cylindric-campanulate, weakly or not inflated, 6–13 mm, villous to glandular-villous, lobes erect to spreading-recurving, strongly unequal to subequal, triangular to linear-lanceolate or narrowly triangular-acuminate, 2–4 mm, apex acute to obtuse. |
sometimes red-dotted, campanulate, 3–6 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, minutely puberulent, ribs weak, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, 6–8 mm. |
included, 5–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous or slightly hirtellous to scabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | distinctly shorter than corolla tube. |
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2n | = 32. |
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Erythranthe moschata |
Erythranthe diffusa |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Springs and seeps, creek edges, moist meadows, ditches, along trails, roadsides, rocky ridges, granite outcrops, shaded and wet places in sagebrush, aspen, fir, spruce-fir, lodgepole pine forests, meadows. | Moist areas in openings of chaparral, dry meadows in pine and oak woodlands. |
Elevation | (300–)400–3100 m. ((1000–)1300–10200 ft.) | 300–1800 m. (1000–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; CO; CT; ID; MA; ME; MI; MT; NH; NJ; NV; NY; OR; PA; RI; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; BC; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; SPM [Introduced in South America (Chile), Europe, e Asia (Japan), Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia]
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Earlier segregation of Erythranthe moniliformis as distinct from E. moschata (for example, G. L. Nesom 2012g) emphasized a primarily erect habit and tendency toward sessile to subsessile and more densely arranged cauline leaves in E. moniliformis versus a decumbent to procumbent habit and consistently petiolate leaves on longer internodes in E. moschata. Discontinuities in morphology, geography, and ecology were not confirmed in later study by Nesom (2017). Rhizomes with small, tuberlike swellings can be observed over the whole moschata/moniliformis range, and there apparently are no consistent distinctions in vestiture and corolla size. Mimulus acutidens Reiche (1911), a later homonym of M. acutidens Greene, pertains here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe diffusa has been included previously in E. palmeri but can be distinguished morphologically by glabrous margins on the calyx and pubescence on the distal end of the style. It occurs in Orange, Riverside, and San Diego counties as well as close to the California border in Baja California. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 401. | FNA vol. 17, p. 387. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus moschatus, E. inodora, E. moniliformis, M. crinitus, M. guttatus var. moschatus, M. inodorus, M. leibergii, M. macranthus, M. moniliformis, M. moschatus var. longiflorus, M. moschatus var. moniliformis, M. moschatus var. pallidiflorus | Mimulus diffusus, M. grantianus |
Name authority | (Douglas ex Lindley) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 38. (2012) | (A. L. Grant) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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