Erythranthe shevockii |
Erythranthe exigua |
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Kelso Creek monkeyflower, Kelso Creek or Shevock's monkeyflower |
eye strain monkeyflower, San Bernardino Mountains monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 2–12 cm, minutely puberulent or glabrous. |
erect, simple, sometimes branched near base, 2–10 cm, minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), lanceolate to ovate, 3–10 × 1–5 mm, base truncate to truncate-cordate, clasping, margins entire, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces minutely puberulent or glabrous. |
cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined, obovate-oblong to narrowly elliptic, ovate, or narrowly ovate, 3–6 mm, base rounded to truncate or cuneate, margins entire or shallowly dentate, apex rounded, surfaces minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–16, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
plesiogamous, (1 or)2–6, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | maroon and yellow, 2 lateral lobes maroon, 1 much larger central lobe yellow (red-spotted), 2 adaxial lobes maroon, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 8–12 mm, exserted 2–3 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 8–15 mm, central lobe 2-fid, abaxial limb sparsely villous-bearded. |
light lavender to purple, abaxial lobe and palate ridges with yellow patches, bilaterally symmetric, ± bilabiate; tube-throat narrowly funnelform-cylindric, 1.5–2.5 mm, exserted 0.5 mm beyond calyx margin; lobes spreading. |
Fruiting pedicels | ascending to often spreading horizontally, 10–22 mm. |
divergent-spreading, 15–20 mm, minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Fruiting calyces | red-spotted or red, campanulate, 4–7 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, minutely puberulent or glabrous, ribs weak, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
campanulate, 2–2.5 mm, minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Capsules | included, 5–6 mm. |
distinctly exserted, 3–4 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | persistent in fruit. |
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2n | = 32. |
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Erythranthe shevockii |
Erythranthe exigua |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Level openings in juniper and Joshua tree woodlands. | Gentle slopes, along small streams, vernal creeks, pebble plains, openings in Jeffrey pine-juniper forests, runoff areas, vernal depressions, roadsides. |
Elevation | 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.) | 1800–2400(–2600) m. (5900–7900(–8500) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Erythranthe shevockii is known only from the southernmost Sierra Nevada in Kern County. It (as Mimulus shevockii) is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Plants of Erythranthe exigua are diminutive annuals with few nodes and greatly reduced leaves, corollas, and calyces, wide spreading pedicels, and lavender flowers with small but bilabiate limbs. The species is known only from the San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County and in adjacent Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 389. | FNA vol. 17, p. 406. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus shevockii | Mimulus exiguus |
Name authority | (Heckard & Bacigalupi) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 42. (2012) |
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