Erythranthe nudata |
Erythranthe latidens |
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bare monkeyflower |
broad-tooth monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted or fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted or filiform-taprooted. |
Stems | erect or ascending, simple or few-branched from basal nodes, branches mostly reddish purple, (5–)9–30 cm, glabrous or minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, at least just above nodes. |
ascending to ascending-erect, geniculate at nodes, usually many-branched from base, 3–10(–25) cm, short stipitate-glandular or sessile-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped. |
Leaves | cauline on wide internodes; petiole 5–30 mm, distals 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3–5-veined, proximals lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to ovate, narrowly spatulate, or oblanceolate, distals usually linear, not perfoliate, 5–15(–30) × 1–5 mm, base attenuate, margins denticulate to proximally dentate-lobed, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, at least just above nodes. |
basal and cauline, largest at base or near mid stem, sometimes unreduced in size up to distalmost nodes; petiole 0 mm; cauline blade palmately 3(–5)-veined, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 8–26(–35) mm, base abruptly cuneate to rounded, sometimes subauriculate, margins entire or barely mucronulate to shallowly dentate-mucronulate, teeth or mucronulae 1–3 per side, apex acute to rounded, surfaces short stipitate-glandular or sessile-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped. |
Flowers | herkogamous, (2–)4–8, usually in proximal or medial to distal axils, chasmogamous. |
plesiogamous, (1–)3–12, from medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, without a large red splotch, throat floor and tube red-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 8–12 mm, exserted 2–4 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 8–12 mm. |
white to pinkish or flesh colored, rarely yellowish, throat and abaxial lobes red-spotted, nearly radially symmetric; tube-throat cylindric, 5–6(–8) mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb barely widened, lobes broadly obovate, apex rounded. |
Fruiting pedicels | erect in flower, spreading to divaricate, rarely recurved, in fruit, 10–35 mm, glabrous or minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, at least just above nodes. |
straight, 11–28 mm, short stipitate-glandular or sessile-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped. |
Fruiting calyces | ovate-campanulate, inflated, sagittally compressed, 6–13 mm, glabrous or minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, at least just above nodes, throat closing, abaxial lobe upcurving over lateral ones, nearly closing orifice. |
purplish, prominently 5-angled, tubular-campanulate or ovoid-ellipsoid, strongly inflated, 8–12 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, short stipitate-glandular or sessile-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, lobes pronounced, erect. |
Capsules | included, 6–7 mm. |
included, 6–7 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe nudata |
Erythranthe latidens |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Open gravelly seeps on serpentine outcrops, serpentine crevices, springs, streamsides, gravelly creek beds, roadside drainages and swales. | Drained flats or slopes subject to vernal inundation, depressions in open fields, bare clay soils, vacant lots, roadsides. |
Elevation | 200–700 m. (700–2300 ft.) | 10–800 m. (0–2600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Erythranthe nudata is distinct in its annual duration, few, inconspicuous, and narrow leaves, long and spreading-divaricate pedicels, and large corollas. The plants apparently are restricted to serpentine substrate and known only from Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, and Sonoma counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
The distinction between Erythranthe latidens and E. inflatula sometimes seems arbitrary, perhaps because of gene exchange where they are sympatric in northwestern California. Erythranthe latidens in Oregon is known only from southern Harney County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 417. | FNA vol. 17, p. 400. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus nudatus | Mimulus inconspicuus var. latidens, M. latidens |
Name authority | (Curran ex Greene) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 44. (2012) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 38. (2012) |
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