Common Name: LOPSEED FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub. Stem: ×-section generally round. Leaf: opposite, simple, generally entire or toothed; stipules 0. Inflorescence: spike, raceme, or panicle, bracted, or flowers 1--2 in axils. Flower: bisexual; calyx radial or +- bilateral, tube long, generally ribbed, lobes 5; corolla generally bilateral, generally 2-lipped, upper [1]2-lobed, lower 3-lobed; stamens 4 in 2 pairs, epipetalous, included or exserted; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers 1--2, placentas parietal or axile, style 1, stigma lobes 2, flat, folding together when touched. Fruit: generally capsule, generally ellipsoid, loculicidal [indehiscent, 1-seeded]. Genera In Family: +- 12 genera, 200 species: +- worldwide, many habitats; some cultivated as ornamental (e.g., Diplacus, Erythranthe). Formerly included in Scrophulariaceae. Note: Family description by David J. Keil. eFlora Treatment Author: Naomi S. Fraga [TJM2 author David M. Thompson] Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: MONKEYFLOWER Habit: Annual or perennial herb, glabrous to hairy. Stem: generally erect. Leaf: generally +- sessile, generally green or +- red. Inflorescence: raceme, bracted, or flowers generally 2 per axil. Flower: occasionally cleistogamous; calyx generally green, lobes 5, generally << tube, generally unequal; corolla generally deciduous, white to red, maroon, purple, gold, or yellow, lower lip base occasionally swollen, +- closing mouth, tube-throat floor generally with 2 longitudinal folds; anther sacs spreading; placentas 2, axile; stigma lobes generally included. Fruit: generally ellipsoid, generally upcurved if elongate, generally +- fragile, loculicidal near tip (hard, indehiscent), chambers 1--2. Seed: many, generally < 1 mm, ovoid, +- yellow to dark brown. Etymology: (Greek: red flower) Note: Limb width measured between most distant points across corolla face. eFlora Treatment Author: Naomi S. Fraga [TJM2 author David M. Thompson] Reference: Barker et al. 2012 Phytoneuron 2012-39:1--60; Nesom 2017 Phytoneuron 2017-17:1--29
NATIVE Habit: Perennial herb; rhizomes or stolons forming mats of +- distinct rosettes; forming bulblets in fall. Stem: 0.5--4 cm, glabrous. Leaf: palmately 3-veined; generally +- spreading in +- distinct rosettes, 7--40 mm, oblong to obovate, adaxially glabrous to densely long-hairy. Flower: pedicel 10--120 mm, stiffly erect; calyx 5--9 mm, glabrous, lobes equal, 0.5--1.5 mm; corolla yellow, tube-throat 8--20 mm, base of lower lip lobes generally red-spotted. Fruit: 6--7 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=34. Ecology: Wet meadows, seeps, streambanks; Elevation: 600--3400 m. Bioregional Distribution: NW, CaR, SN, WTR, SnBr, SnJt, GB; Distribution Outside California: to Washington, Nevada. Flowering Time: Jun--Aug Note: Occasionally small, hairy plants (of e.g., Echo Summit, El Dorado Co.) have been recognized taxonomically, as Mimulus primuloides var. pilosellus (Greene) Smiley, but variation +- continuous. Synonyms: Mimulus primuloides Benth.; Mimulus pilosellus Greene; Mimulus primuloides var. minimus M. Peck; Mimulus primuloides var. pilosellus (Greene) Smiley Jepson eFlora Author: Naomi S. Fraga [TJM2 author David M. Thompson] Reference: Barker et al. 2012 Phytoneuron 2012-39:1--60; Nesom 2017 Phytoneuron 2017-17:1--29 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Erythranthe percaulis Next taxon: Erythranthe ptilota
Botanical illustration including Erythranthe primuloides
Citation for this treatment: Naomi S. Fraga 2018, Erythranthe primuloides, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 6, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=99174, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 16, 2024.
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