Biology:Erythranthe carsonensis

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Carson Valley monkeyflower
Carson Valley monkeyflower, Erythranthe carsonensis.jpg

Imperiled (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Phrymaceae
Genus: Erythranthe
Species:
E. carsonensis
Binomial name
Erythranthe carsonensis
N.S.Fraga

Erythranthe carsonensis is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name Carson Valley monkeyflower.

Distribution

The species is native to Nevada and California , where its range is restricted to three valleys (Carson, Eagle, and Washoe Valleys) and the surrounding foothills. Its preferred habitat is dry, sandy soils in sagebrush and bitterbrush vegetation.[citation needed]

Description

An annual species, 2 to 10 cm tall, bearing 1 to 20 yellow flowers. The flower is typically 0.5 to 1 inch wide, yellow with yellow hairs and tiny red dots on the palate and a large red dot on the lower limb.[2] In small plants, the flower is often larger than the leaves and stem.

Sereno Watson first described this species as "A pretty dwarf flower of earliest spring, forming bright patches of color among the sage-brush in the lower valleys, the delicate inch-long stem seeming scarce able to sustain the absurdly disproportionate flowers that terminate it. Carson Valley, Nevada ; April."[3]

Taxonomy

Erythranthe carsonensis was separated from Erythranthe montioides in 2012 based on morphological and habitat differences.[2][4]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q17746444 entry