Erythranthe shevockii |
Erythranthe inconspicua |
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Kelso Creek monkeyflower, Kelso Creek or Shevock's monkeyflower |
small-flower monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 2–12 cm, minutely puberulent or glabrous. |
erect to ascending, simple or branched from base, 4-angled, 3–16 cm, glabrous. |
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. |
basal and cauline; petiole: proximals 1–5 mm, mid cauline and distals 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, broadly elliptic to ovate or broadly ovate, 6–20 × 6–12 mm, base rounded to cordate, margins subentire to denticulate, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate, surfaces sparsely villous. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–16, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
plesiogamous, 1–12, from proximal 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. |
pale pink to rose pink or purple to magenta, throat sometimes yellow, lobes sometimes yellowish with pale rose spots, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 5–9 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 5–6 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | ascending to often spreading horizontally, 10–22 mm. |
5–15 mm, glabrous. |
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, 6–9 mm, margins subtruncate, glabrous, lobes reduced, subequal. |
Capsules | included, 5–6 mm. |
included, 4–9 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, minutely villous-hirsute. |
2n | = 32. |
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Erythranthe shevockii |
Erythranthe inconspicua |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Jul). |
Habitat | Level openings in juniper and Joshua tree woodlands. | Steep, north- or northwest-facing slopes, canyon walls, moist talus, granitic sand on outcrops, moist gravelly open spots, sandy lakeshores, hillside streams or seeps, riparian woodlands, grassy slopes, gray pine, yellow pine, yellow pine-Kellogg oak, chaparral, Pseudotsuga-Pinus-Cornus, canyon live oak woodlands. |
Elevation | 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.) | 200–2100 m. (700–6900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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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.) |
Erythranthe inconspicua occurs in Sierran counties from Kern north to El Dorado and then is apparently disjunct further northward to Butte County. A record from Los Angeles County (Bigelow s.n., 14 May 1854, the type of the species) is probably mislabeled, as other collections by Bigelow on the same day are from Calaveras County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 389. | FNA vol. 17, p. 382. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus shevockii | Mimulus inconspicuus |
Name authority | (Heckard & Bacigalupi) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 34. (2012) |
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