Erythranthe primuloides |
Erythranthe hallii |
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primrose monkey-flower |
Hall's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous or stoloniferous, mat-forming, rhizomes or stolons flagelliform. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted, sometimes apparently rooting at proximal nodes if stems proximally decumbent. |
Stems | erect to ascending, usually simple, 2–10(–20) cm, villous, internodes shortened. |
erect, simple, 4-angled, 2–8 cm, slender, glabrous. |
Leaves | all basal or near basal, often rosulate; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate, 7–40 × 4–12 mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins entire, distally denticulate to dentate, or sharply serrate-dentate, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial glabrous or glabrate to sparsely to densely long-villous, eglandular. |
basal and cauline or basal deciduous, largest at mid stem or above, cauline relatively few on long internodes; petiole: basal and proximals to midcauline 1–4 mm, distals 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5–11 × 3–9 mm, base truncate to cuneate, margins very shallowly dentate or denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or distals and bracteals sparsely villous, hairs vitreous, flattened, eglandular, multicellular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1. |
plesiogamous, (1–)4–10, sometimes from all nodes, usually beginning about mid stem, cleistogamous. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow to orange-yellow, usually brown-spotted abaxially, base of each abaxial lobe usually with a larger reddish brown spot, bilaterally or nearly radially symmetric, weakly bilabiate or nearly regular, densely hirsute on abaxial side of opening; tube-throat narrowly campanulate, 15–20 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobes broadly obovate-oblong, apex rounded- or truncate-notched, throat open, palate densely villous, abaxial ridges prominent. |
yellow, usually red-dotted, bilaterally or nearly radially symmetric, bilabiate or nearly regular; tube-throat narrowly cylindric, 4–6 mm, exserted 0.5–1 mm beyond calyx margin; limb barely expanded. |
Fruiting pedicels | 30–110(–130) mm, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular near base. |
usually deflexed 90º at calyx, 6–14 mm, longer than subtending leaves. |
Fruiting calyces | tubular-campanulate, weakly or not inflated, 6–8 mm, glabrous. |
sometimes red-dotted, broadly elliptic-ovoid, inflated, sagittally compressed, (5–)7–10 mm, glabrous, throat closing, adaxial lobe not distinctly longer than abaxial, not falcate. |
Capsules | included, 6–7 mm. |
included, 4–6 mm. |
Anthers | slightly exserted, margins ciliate, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 34. |
= 32. |
Erythranthe primuloides |
Erythranthe hallii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Wet meadows, seeps, streamsides. | Ledges, seeps, along streams, wet meadows. |
Elevation | 600–3400 m. (2000–11200 ft.) | 1900–3200 m. (6200–10500 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA
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CO |
Discussion | Flowers in Erythranthe primuloides and E. linearifolia characteristically appear to be scapose, but the scapes are pedicels arising from axils of greatly foreshortened stems. Occasionally in both species the internodes may lengthen somewhat, and the leaves are not so densely clustered at the base of the stems. In northern Klamath, western Deschutes, and eastern Douglas counties, Oregon, an area within the range of typical populations, Erythranthe primuloides has distinctively large corollas (limbs 10–15 mm wide). Apparent clones of large-flowered and smaller-flowered plants sometimes grow in close proximity or even intermixed, appearing as two different entities. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe hallii is known from Boulder, Clear Creek, Fremont, Grand, Jefferson, Larimer, Routt, and Saguache counties. The Colorado population system is morphologically and geographically coherent. Erythranthe hallii is similar to E. arvensis; both have four-angled stems, autogamous reproduction, a tendency to root at basal nodes and distally, and both have bracteal leaves villous with vitreous, flattened, eglandular, multicellular hairs, although this vestiture is barely developed and often absent in E. hallii. The only reported chromosome number from the Colorado plants (2n = 32) also appears to be distinct among possible relatives of E. hallii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 389. | FNA vol. 17, p. 423. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus primuloides, M. nevadensis, M. pilosellus, M. primuloides var. minimus, M. primuloides var. pilosellus | Mimulus hallii, M. guttatus var. hallii |
Name authority | (Bentham) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) | (Greene) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 43. (2012) |
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