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Erythranthe guttata
COMMON MONKEYFLOWER, SEEP MONKEYFLOWER


Higher Taxonomy
Family: PhrymaceaeView DescriptionDichotomous Key
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.
Genus: ErythrantheView DescriptionDichotomous Key


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
Erythranthe guttata (DC.) G.L. Nesom
NATIVE
Habit: Rhizomed perennial herb, 6--65(80+) cm, glabrous to hairy. Leaf: abruptly reduced on distal stem; petiole 0--95 mm; blade 4--125 mm, ovate to round, generally crenate, base generally irregularly small-lobed or dissected. Inflorescence: raceme, generally (1)3--20(28)-flowered; bracts ovate to cordate, fused at base or not, not glaucous. Flower: open; pedicel 15--40(60) mm; calyx 11--17(20) mm, asymmetrically swollen in fruit, glabrous to hairy, lobes unequal, lowest 2 upcurved in fruit; corolla yellow, tube-throat 10--20 mm. Fruit: 7--11 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=28,56.
Ecology: Common. Wet places, generally terrestrial, occasionally emergent or floating in mats; Elevation: < 2500 m. Bioregional Distribution: CA; Distribution Outside California: to Alaska, western Canada, Rocky Mountains, northern Mexico; introduced in northeastern United States, eastern Canada. Flowering Time: Apr--Sep
Synonyms: Mimulus clementinus Greene; Mimulus equinus Greene; Mimulus glabratus Kunth var. adscendens A. Gray; Mimulus grandiflorus Howell; Mimulus guttatus DC.; Mimulus guttatus subsp. haidensis Calder & Roy L. Taylor; Mimulus guttatus var. puberulus (Rydb.) A.L. Grant; Mimulus hirsutus Howell; Mimulus langsdorffii Greene; Mimulus langsdorffii var. argutus Greene; Mimulus langsdorffii var. californicus Jeps.; Mimulus langsdorffii var. guttatus (DC.) Jeps.; Mimulus langsdorffii var. minimus J.K. Henry; Mimulus langsdorffii var. platyphyllus Greene; Mimulus lyratus Benth.; Mimulus paniculatus Greene; Mimulus petiolaris Greene; Mimulus prionophyllus Greene; Mimulus puberulus Rydb.; Mimulus rivularis Nutt.
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
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Citation for this treatment: Naomi S. Fraga 2018, Erythranthe guttata, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 6, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=99131, accessed on April 24, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 24, 2024.

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