Erythranthe norrisii |
Erythranthe utahensis |
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Kaweah monkeyflower, Norris' monkeyflower |
Utah monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, fibrous-rooted or filiform-taprooted. | Perennials, rhizomatous, rooting at nodes, rhizomes filiform. |
Stems | ascending to erect-ascending, geniculate at nodes, usually branched from proximal nodes, 2–15(–25) cm, villous-glandular. |
erect, sometimes decumbent-ascending proximally, simple or few-branched, 20–50 cm, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular in inflorescence. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiole 5–10(–15) mm; blade palmately 3–5-veined, sometimes with 1–3 distal vein pairs diverging pinnately, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 20–35 × 10–20 mm, base usually attenuate, margins subentire to distally denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces villous-glandular. |
basal and cauline, even-sized or largest near mid stem; petiole 0 mm or proximalmost 2–10 mm; blade palmately 3–5-veined, orbicular or suborbicular to broadly elliptic, broadly ovate, or depressed-ovate, 20–40(–75) × 12–35(–40) mm, base usually truncate to broadly cuneate, margins entire or subentire to mucronulate, shallowly dentate, or denticulate, apex rounded, surfaces glabrous or glabrate to sparsely stipitate-glandular and sparsely pilose, hairs thin-walled, abaxial often glaucous. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–5, from medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 6–16, from proximal to distal nodes, in a loose raceme, distal bracts becoming much reduced. |
Styles | glabrous. |
hirtellous. |
Corollas | yellow, base of each lobe with a prominent maroon splotch, abaxial limb with white patch at 2 sinus bases, weakly bilaterally or radially symmetric, weakly bilabiate or regular; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 12–16 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 15–30 mm, lobes oblong-obovate to orbicular-obovate, apex rounded-truncate. |
yellow, abaxial limb prominently darker yellow, sparsely purple-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat narrowly funnelform to broadly cylindric, 10–15 mm, exserted 5–8 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 12–20 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | 20–35(–50) mm, villous-glandular. |
(25–)40–75 mm, stipitate-glandular to short villous, hairs gland-tipped. |
Fruiting calyces | red-dotted, campanulate, weakly inflated, 4–6 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, villous-glandular, ribs rounded-thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, often incurved, linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, apex rounded to blunt. |
broadly ovate-cylindric, inflated, sagittally compressed, (10–)11–17(–20) mm, stipitate-glandular or minutely hirtellous or a mixture, hairs sometimes also longer, thin-walled, eglandular or glandular, throat not closing, adaxial lobe slightly longer, triangular-blunt. |
Capsules | usually slightly exserted, 4–6 mm. |
included, 5–7 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 32. |
= 28, 30. |
Erythranthe norrisii |
Erythranthe utahensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | Flowering (Feb–)May–Aug(–Oct). |
Habitat | Steep marble outcrops in soil pockets, moss covered marble and quartzite ledges, cracks, fractures, weathered faces, chamise chaparral or blue oak woodlands. | Drainage ditches, springs, seeps, wet meadows, margins of ponds and small streams, marshy areas. |
Elevation | 300–1300 m. (1000–4300 ft.) | 1400–2500 m. (4600–8200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; CO; NV; UT |
Discussion | Erythranthe norrisii is known only from the Kaweah River drainage; most populations are in Sequoia National Park in Tulare County. The species is characterized by its short-petiolate leaves with attenuate bases, very large corollas with red splotches at the base of each lobe and two white patches on the abaxial limb, and very short, purple-dotted calyces with rounded-thickened ribs and linear-oblong lobes incurved in fruit. The capsules often are slightly exserted. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe utahensis is characterized by its erect stems, prolifically produced filiform rhizomes, basal leaves short-petiolate to subsessile and cauline sessile, blades suborbicular to broadly ovate or depressed ovate with thin-walled villous-glandular hairs on both surfaces, margins subentire, proximal pedicels elongating to 75 mm, and calyces open at maturity. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 405. | FNA vol. 17, p. 410. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus norrisii | Mimulus glabratus subsp. utahensis |
Name authority | (Heckard & Shevock) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 39. (2012) | (Pennell) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 44. (2012) |
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