Erythranthe purpurea |
Erythranthe gracilipes |
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little purple monkeyflower, purple monkeyflower |
slender-stalk monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 3–10 cm, minutely puberulent. |
erect, simple or branched, 5–15 cm, sparsely glandular-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. |
cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear to lanceolate, (3–)7–13 × 1–3 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces sparsely glandular-puberulent. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–22, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–15, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
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. |
pink to rose lavender, throat deep pink to purple with 2 yellow longitudinal ridges, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate, 2 adaxial lobes much reduced, smaller than 3 abaxials; tube-throat cylindric, 7–10 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 5–9 mm, abaxial lobes rounded and shallowly 2-fid, abaxial limb glabrous or sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | ascending to often spreading horizontally, 13–57(–70) mm. |
8–30 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | becoming reddish, campanulate, 3–8 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, minutely puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
becoming red to straw colored, campanulate, 4–7 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, sparsely glandular-puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins ciliate. |
Capsules | included, 3–8 mm. |
included, 4–5 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe purpurea |
Erythranthe gracilipes |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Moist openings along streams, swales, and depressions, pine duff in yellow pine forests, margins of dry meadows. | Open areas in thin decomposed granite soils, often on edges of large granite boulders. |
Elevation | 1900–2800 m. (6200–9200 ft.) | 500–1300 m. (1600–4300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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CA
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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.) |
Erythranthe gracilipes is endemic to the foothills of the central Sierra Nevada in Fresno, Madera, and Mariposa counties and apparently is most abundant after fire. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 388. | FNA vol. 17, p. 385. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus purpureus, M. purpureus var. pauxillus | Mimulus gracilipes |
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) | (B. L. Robinson) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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