Erythranthe parishii |
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Parish mimulus, Parish's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted or fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | erect, usually simple, (3–)10–85 cm, villous-glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, oblanceolate to narrowly ovate or oblong, (8–)15–75 × 3–17 mm, base slightly narrowed, subclasping to clasping, margins distally denticulate to irregularly dentate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces villous-glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 4–12, from medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
Corollas | white to light lavender, pinkish, or rosy, palate ridges yellow-striped, palate and abaxial limb with or without small, reddish spots, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 8–10 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobe apex truncate to rounded, slightly erose, throat open. |
Fruiting pedicels | 15–20 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | slightly ridge-angled, cylindric-campanulate, not inflated, 8–13 mm, villous-glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
Capsules | included, 6–10 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe parishii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Wet, sandy streamsides, rocky riverbeds, canyon drainages. |
Elevation | 400–2300 m. (1300–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Erythranthe parishii occurs in the southern Sierra Nevada (Kern and Tulare counties), mountain ranges of southern California (five counties), desert mountains (Inyo County), and in Clark and southern Nye counties, Nevada. It is the only annual species of sect. Erythranthe. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 392. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus parishii |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 37. (2012) |
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