Erythranthe shevockii |
Erythranthe norrisii |
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Kelso Creek monkeyflower, Kelso Creek or Shevock's monkeyflower |
Kaweah monkeyflower, Norris' monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted or filiform-taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 2–12 cm, minutely puberulent or glabrous. |
ascending to erect-ascending, geniculate at nodes, usually branched from proximal nodes, 2–15(–25) cm, villous-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. |
basal and cauline; petiole 5–10(–15) mm; blade palmately 3–5-veined, sometimes with 1–3 distal vein pairs diverging pinnately, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 20–35 × 10–20 mm, base usually attenuate, margins subentire to distally denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces villous-glandular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–16, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–5, from 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. |
yellow, base of each lobe with a prominent maroon splotch, abaxial limb with white patch at 2 sinus bases, weakly bilaterally or radially symmetric, weakly bilabiate or regular; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 12–16 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 15–30 mm, lobes oblong-obovate to orbicular-obovate, apex rounded-truncate. |
Fruiting pedicels | ascending to often spreading horizontally, 10–22 mm. |
20–35(–50) mm, villous-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. |
red-dotted, campanulate, weakly inflated, 4–6 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, villous-glandular, ribs rounded-thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, often incurved, linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, apex rounded to blunt. |
Capsules | included, 5–6 mm. |
usually slightly exserted, 4–6 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 32. |
= 32. |
Erythranthe shevockii |
Erythranthe norrisii |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | Flowering Mar–May. |
Habitat | Level openings in juniper and Joshua tree woodlands. | Steep marble outcrops in soil pockets, moss covered marble and quartzite ledges, cracks, fractures, weathered faces, chamise chaparral or blue oak woodlands. |
Elevation | 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.) | 300–1300 m. (1000–4300 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 norrisii is known only from the Kaweah River drainage; most populations are in Sequoia National Park in Tulare County. The species is characterized by its short-petiolate leaves with attenuate bases, very large corollas with red splotches at the base of each lobe and two white patches on the abaxial limb, and very short, purple-dotted calyces with rounded-thickened ribs and linear-oblong lobes incurved in fruit. The capsules often are slightly exserted. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 389. | FNA vol. 17, p. 405. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus shevockii | Mimulus norrisii |
Name authority | (Heckard & Bacigalupi) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) | (Heckard & Shevock) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 39. (2012) |
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