Erythranthe ptilota |
Erythranthe ampliata |
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musk monkeyflower, musk-flower, sessile-leaf monkey-flower, wing-leaf monkeyflower |
Nez Perce monkey-flower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous, sometimes rooting at proximal nodes. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted or filiform-taprooted. |
Stems | prostrate, sometimes decumbent to ascending, few-branched, 20–80 cm, villous, hairs 1–2 mm, eglandular, sometimes mixed with much shorter stipitate-glandular ones, internodes evident. |
erect to ascending, straight or geniculate at nodes, usually many-branched, 4-angled, 5–17 cm, sparsely sessile- to subsessile-glandular, hairs 0.05–0.2 mm, gland-tipped. |
Leaves | cauline, basal not persistent, often congested; petiole 0 mm, rarely 1–2(–3) mm; blade pinnately veined, oblong-lanceolate, 30–70 × 10–22 mm, base rounded, margins denticulate to dentate, apex acute, surfaces villous, hairs 1–2 mm, eglandular, sometimes mixed with much shorter stipitate-glandular ones. |
cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 8–20 mm; blade palmately veined, broadly ovate to lanceolate, 8–25 × 5–19 mm, base cuneate, margins dentate to coarsely denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces sparsely sessile- to subsessile-glandular, hairs 0.05–0.2 mm, gland-tipped. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 4–10, from medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–10, from proximal to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, throat with fine blackish or brownish lines on all sides, weakly bilaterally or nearly radially symmetric, weakly bilabiate or nearly regular; tube-throat narrowly campanulate, 15–18 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobe apex rounded. |
deep yellow, sometimes with small white patches, abaxial limb with a few brownish dots, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat broadly funnelform, 8–12(–14) mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; lobes obovate-oblong, apex rounded to truncate. |
Fruiting pedicels | (15–)22–50 mm, villous, hairs 1–2 mm, eglandular, sometimes mixed with much shorter stipitate-glandular ones. |
10–22 mm, sparsely sessile- to subsessile-glandular, hairs 0.05–0.2 mm, gland-tipped. |
Fruiting calyces | wing- or plicate-angled, cylindric-campanulate, weakly inflated, 10–12 mm, villous-glandular, hairs gland-tipped, lobes distinctly spreading, strongly unequal, linear-lanceolate to narrowly triangular, 5–9 mm, apex long acuminate-apiculate. |
tubular-campanulate, not or weakly inflated, 6–8 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, minutely, sparsely stipitate-glandular or glabrous, lobes pronounced, erect. |
Capsules | included, 6–8 mm. |
included, 5–6 mm. |
Anthers | included, finely hirtellous to hispidulous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe ptilota |
Erythranthe ampliata |
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Phenology | Flowering (May–)Jun–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Creek banks, gravel bars, flood plains, shallow ditches and natural drainages, swales, damp banks, wet sand, moist soils in coniferous woods, marshes, bogs. | Basalt outcrops, seepy roadcuts, grassland seeps. |
Elevation | 0–1000(–1900) m. (0–3300(–6200) ft.) | 900–1700 m. (3000–5600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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ID; MT |
Discussion | Erythranthe ptilota is recognized by its prostrate to decumbent or decumbent-ascending habit, large, consistently sessile leaves, densely villous vestiture, long pedicels, large calyces and corollas, hispid-hirtellous anthers, and particularly by its long, strongly unequal, linear-triangular calyx lobes usually distally falcate. Leaf bases typically are truncate to rounded or subcordate. Rarely the leaves are short-petiolate, but in such cases, the distinctive leaf bases, vestiture, calyx morphology, and pubescent anthers are diagnostic. Erythranthe ptilota is widely sympatric with E. moschata but usually occurs at lower elevations and characteristically in wetter habitats. The epithet ptilota (Greek ptilotos, winged) alludes to a fancied winglike aspect of the pairs of sessile leaves. A population system of Erythranthe ptilota-like plants occurs in southern California, about 480 km disjunct from the main range of the species. These plants have the prostrate habit, large leaves, long pedicels, and large corollas of E. ptilota, but the calyx lobes are variable in length and usually do not show the characteristic attenuate-apiculate apices. The southern California plants are identified here as E. moschata. Erythranthe ptilota is a new name at specific rank for Mimulus moschatus var. sessilifolius [not E. sessilifolia (Maximowicz) G. L. Nesom]. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe ampliata is known from Clearwater, Lewis, and Nez Perce counties in Idaho and six western counties in Montana. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 402. | FNA vol. 17, p. 398. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus moschatus var. sessilifolius | Mimulus ampliatus |
Name authority | G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2017-17: 4. (2017) | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 38. (2012) |
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