Erythranthe patula |
Erythranthe norrisii |
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stalk-leaf monkey-flower |
Kaweah monkeyflower, Norris' monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, fibrous-rooted or filiform-taprooted. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted or filiform-taprooted. |
Stems | erect to ascending, straight or geniculate at nodes, usually simple, (3–)5–15(–24) cm, stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.2–0.5 mm, gland-tipped. |
ascending to erect-ascending, geniculate at nodes, usually branched from proximal nodes, 2–15(–25) cm, villous-glandular. |
Leaves | cauline, basal not persistent; petiole (5–)8–25 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, deltate or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4–12(–17) × 3–10(–14) mm, base rounded to cuneate-truncate, margins usually denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.2–0.5 mm, gland-tipped. |
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. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–10, from proximal to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–5, from medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, abaxial limb usually with a few red or brownish dots, radially or bilaterally symmetric, regular or weakly bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 7–8 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobes oblong, apex rounded to truncate. |
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. |
Fruiting pedicels | 10–25(–38) mm, stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.2–0.5 mm, gland-tipped. |
20–35(–50) mm, villous-glandular. |
Fruiting calyces | tubular, weakly or not inflated, 5–6(–7) mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, sparsely stipitate-glandular to sparsely hirtellous, lobes pronounced, erect. |
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. |
Capsules | included, 4–6 mm. |
usually slightly exserted, 4–6 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 32. |
= 32. |
Erythranthe patula |
Erythranthe norrisii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May(–Aug). | Flowering Mar–May. |
Habitat | Ephemeral seeps, springs, rocky stream banks, moist basalt, fine gravel on bedrock, muddy hillside seeps, crevices. | Steep marble outcrops in soil pockets, moss covered marble and quartzite ledges, cracks, fractures, weathered faces, chamise chaparral or blue oak woodlands. |
Elevation | 200–1900(–2900) m. (700–6200(–9500) ft.) | 300–1300 m. (1000–4300 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC
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CA
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Discussion | Erythranthe patula is distinctive with its long-petiolate leaves with ovate blades and its small, weakly bilabiate to nearly radially symmetric corollas. Vestiture may include only minute, stipitate-glandular hairs or it may be an intergrading mix of stipitate-glandular hairs and minute (0.1–0.2 mm), sharp-pointed, eglandular hairs. Plants may have stipitate-glandular pedicels and calyces but hirtellous, eglandular stems, or they may have stipitate-glandular stems and pedicels but hirtellous calyces. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 397. | FNA vol. 17, p. 405. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus patulus | Mimulus norrisii |
Name authority | (Pennell) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 39. (2012) | (Heckard & Shevock) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 39. (2012) |
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