ALLEGHANY MONKEY-FLOWER
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Mimulus ringens L.
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| Riley County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 12-50 inches |
| Family: Phrymaceae - Lopseed Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August, September |
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| Stems: | | Plants glabrous. Stems ascending to erect, simple or branched distally. | | Leaves: | | Opposite, sessile, often somewhat clasping; blade elliptic to narrowly lanceolate or lance-oblong, 1.2 to 6 inches long, .4 to 1.4 inch wide, margins serrate or shallowly crenulate, base broadly angled to rounded, apex acute to acuminate. | | Inflorescences: | | Axillary, flowers usually solitary. | | Flowers: | | Bisexual, bilaterally symmetric: calyx tubular, .5 to .8 inch, lobes 5, triangular; corolla blue to violet, tube .8 to 1.4 inch; petals 5, 2-lipped, minutely glandular hairy; upper lip often curved out; lower lip pale yellow near base; stamens 4, 2 longer than the others, fused to middle of corolla tube; pistil 1; style 1; stigma 2-lobed. | | Fruits: | | Fruiting pedicels spreading to ascending, .8 to 2 inches. Capsules ovoid, .3 to .5 inch. Seeds orangish brown, ellipsoid. | | Habitat: | | Banks of rivers and streams, marshes. | | Distribution: | | East half of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Mimulus, mimic or comic, alluding to the face-like corolla. Historically placed in Scrophulariaceae, but molecular studies have shown that Mimulus belongs in Phrymaceae. |
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| | Alleghany monkey-flower habit |  | | 103 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
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| | Alleghany monkey-flower leaves |  | | 123 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
| | Alleghany monkey-flower leaves |  | | 141 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
| | Alleghany monkey-flower habit |  | | 139 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
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