OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mimulus alatus   FAMILY Phrymaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mimulus alatus   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Mimulus alatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-11-003:

Mimulus alatus   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Mimulus alatus

 

COMMON NAME:
Winged Monkeyflower, Sharpwing Monkeyflower


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image of Mimulus alatus, Winged Monkeyflower, Sharpwing Monkeyflower

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_mial2_001_lvd

        

image of Mimulus alatus, Winged Monkeyflower, Sharpwing Monkeyflower

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_mial2_004_lvd

        

image of Mimulus alatus, Winged Monkeyflower, Sharpwing Monkeyflower

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_mimulus_alatus

August        

Flowers solitary in leaf axils on stalks shorter than the calyx, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).


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Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_mimulus_alatus_5

August        

image of Mimulus alatus, Winged Monkeyflower, Sharpwing Monkeyflower

Rusty Wilson    fkw_mimulusalatus_2

Month Unknown    Greenwood County    SC

Ninety Six National Historic Site

image of Mimulus alatus, Winged Monkeyflower, Sharpwing Monkeyflower

Rusty Wilson    fkw_mimulusalatus_3

Month Unknown    Greenwood County    SC

Ninety Six National Historic Site

image of Mimulus alatus, Winged Monkeyflower, Sharpwing Monkeyflower

Rusty Wilson    fkw_mimulusalatus_4

Month Unknown    Greenwood County    SC

Ninety Six National Historic Site

Leaves similar to M. ringens but to 5 (vs 3) cm wide and distinctly petiolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Mimulus alatus, Winged Monkeyflower, Sharpwing Monkeyflower

Rusty Wilson    fkw_mimulusalatus_4b

Month Unknown    Greenwood County    SC

Ninety Six National Historic Site

The stem is narrowly winged, & flowers are exceeded by the petiolate leaves, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mimulus alatus   FAMILY Phrymaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mimulus alatus   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Mimulus alatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-11-003:
Mimulus alatus   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Mimulus alatus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2390

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: marshes, bottomlands, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in SC Mountains)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Lavender/Nearly white
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
4 stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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