Erythranthe verbenacea |
Erythranthe trinitiensis |
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crimson monkeyflower, pico Pajaro |
pink-margined monkeyflower, Trinity Mountains or pink-margined monkeyflower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Annuals, shallowly fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | erect to decumbent, usually simple, weakly 4-angled, 20–60 cm, ± glandular-villous. |
erect, straight at nodes, simple or branched at base, 5–15 cm, puberulent, hairs gland-tipped, glands often dark. |
Leaves | cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3–5-veined, elliptic to obovate, rhombic-ovate, or broadly spatulate, 50–75 × 15–26(–30) mm, base subcordate, subclasping, margins coarsely serrate, sometimes only distally, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces ± glandular-villous. |
mostly cauline, largest at mid stem; petiole 4–8 mm, 1-veined, not winged; blade palmately 3-veined, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 6–17 × 4–9 mm, base attenuate, margins entire or dentate-serrate, teeth 1–2 per side, shallow, apex acute, surfaces puberulent, hairs gland-tipped, glands often dark, adaxial sometimes sparsely villous-glandular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 2–12, axillary at leafy medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–12, from proximal to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | crimson, often yellow-tinged, palate ridges dark red, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat tubular, 25–35 mm, exserted 13–25 mm beyond calyx margin; abaxial limb spreading, adaxial erect, lobe apex truncate, often emarginate, throat open, palate ridges densely short-villous. |
yellow and light pink to white, tube-throat yellow (inner and outer surfaces), lobes (limb) pink or white with pink distal borders, palate ridges yellow, throat floor and ridges weakly red-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 7–10 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin. |
Fruiting pedicels | 45–90(–150) mm. |
divergent-arcuate, 9–17 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | campanulate, weakly inflated, 20–28 mm, sparsely glandular-villosulous to stipitate-glandular, lobes triangular to ovate-triangular, apex linear-triangular. |
oblong-ovoid, distinctly inflated, 8–10 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, puberulent, hairs gland-tipped, glands often dark, lobes pronounced, erect. |
Capsules | included, 15–22 mm. |
included, 6–8 mm. |
Anthers | exserted, white-villous, thecae reflexed 45º. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 16. |
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Erythranthe verbenacea |
Erythranthe trinitiensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep. | Flowering Jun–Jul(–Aug). |
Habitat | Stream edges and beds, flood plains, around seeps and springs, canyon bottoms, moist cliff crevices and ledges. | Seeps over serpentine, wet meadows, roadsides. |
Elevation | 300–2600 m. (1000–8500 ft.) | 1300–2000 m. (4300–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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CA |
Discussion | R. K. Vickery (1992) noted that yellow-flowered morphs of Erythranthe verbenacea occur in a population at Vasey’s Paradise in the Grand Canyon (Coconino County), 32 miles downstream from Lees Ferry. Populations of Erythranthe verbenacea in the Oak Creek Canyon area in southern Coconino County, Arizona, have leaves with a narrow, lateral, undulating, purple stripe across the mid lamina. The coloration is retained even in dried specimens. In Utah, Erythranthe verbenacea is known only from the Zion Canyon area. Molecular (P. M. Beardsley et al. 2003) and morphological (G. L. Nesom 2014b) data indicate that Erythranthe verbenacea is sister to E. eastwoodiae. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe trinitiensis is similar to E. pulsiferae in its narrow leaves, glandular-puberulent vestiture, and weakly bilabiate corollas; it differs in its early-shed basal leaves, cauline leaves with one-veined petioles, and yellow corolla tubes and throats with pink lobes or lobe margins. The species is known only in Humboldt, Siskiyou, and Trinity counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 394. | FNA vol. 17, p. 399. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus verbenaceus, M. cardinalis var. verbenaceus, M. lugens | |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 37. (2012) | G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2013-43: 1, figs. 1–3. (2013) |
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