Common name: Monkey-flower
Erythranthe guttata (Fisch. ex DC.) G.L.Nesom APNI* Synonyms: Mimulus guttatus DC. APNI*
Description: Procumbent or ascending, glabrous perennial, branches to 50 cm long. Stems hollow, sprawling, rooting at the nodes where the stem is in contact with the ground, with upper stem erct.
Leaves not joined at nodes, lamina broad-ovate, 20–30 mm long, 10–25 mm wide, apex acute, base rounded, margins toothed, 5–7-veined from base; lower leaves with petiole 2–5 cm long, upper ones sessile.
Flowers 1 in axils; pedicels 2–6 cm long. Calyx 15–20 mm long; teeth unequal, the upper c. 4 mm long, others c. 2 mm long. Corolla yellow; tube 15–20 mm long with fine red lines; lobes rounded, ± equal, spreading, with 2 hairy ridges down the lower side of the open mouth.
Capsule obovoid, 4–5 mm long.
Flowering: chiefly September–March
Distribution and occurrence: Cultivated, sometimes naturalized in moist sites, along streams and drains; south from Kosciusko region. Native of N America.
NSW subdivisions: *ST
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas.
Text by W. R. Barker & G. J. Harden (1992)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992), modified according to G.L.Nesom Phytoneuron 39: 43 (2012)
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