Erythranthe shevockii |
Erythranthe purpurea |
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Kelso Creek monkeyflower, Kelso Creek or Shevock's monkeyflower |
little purple monkeyflower, purple 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 or branched from basal nodes, 3–10 cm, minutely puberulent. |
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, 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, 1–16, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–22, 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. |
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, 10–22 mm. |
ascending to often spreading horizontally, 13–57(–70) mm. |
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. |
becoming reddish, campanulate, 3–8 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, minutely puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, 5–6 mm. |
included, 3–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 32. |
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Erythranthe shevockii |
Erythranthe purpurea |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Level openings in juniper and Joshua tree woodlands. | Moist openings along streams, swales, and depressions, pine duff in yellow pine forests, margins of dry meadows. |
Elevation | 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.) | 1900–2800 m. (6200–9200 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.) |
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. 389. | FNA vol. 17, p. 388. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus shevockii | Mimulus purpureus, M. purpureus var. pauxillus |
Name authority | (Heckard & Bacigalupi) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) | (A. L. Grant) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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