Erythranthe purpurea |
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little purple monkeyflower, purple monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 3–10 cm, minutely puberulent. |
Leaves | cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3–5-veined, elliptic to lanceolate, 4–15 × 1–5 mm, base truncate to truncate-cordate, clasping, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces minutely puberulent. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–22, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
Corollas | pink to purple, adaxial limb darker than abaxial, abaxial limb with yellow markings, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric to funnelform, 7–13 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 7–10 mm, bilabiate, 3 abaxial lobes notched, 2 adaxial nearly entire, abaxial limb sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | ascending to often spreading horizontally, 13–57(–70) mm. |
Fruiting calyces | becoming reddish, campanulate, 3–8 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, minutely puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, 3–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe purpurea |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Moist openings along streams, swales, and depressions, pine duff in yellow pine forests, margins of dry meadows. |
Elevation | 1900–2800 m. (6200–9200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Erythranthe purpurea is restricted to the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino County and is disjunct in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir in Baja California, Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 388. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus purpureus, M. purpureus var. pauxillus |
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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